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Discussion of ‘Classification of fault breccias and related fault rocks’, by Woodcock & Mort: the particular problem of pseudotachylyte

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2010

Jerry F. Magloughlin ,
Nigel H. Woodcock  and
Kate Mort
Jerry F. Magloughlin
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523-1482, USA; jerrym@warnercnr.colostate.edu
Nigel H. Woodcock
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK; nhw1@esc.cam.ac.uk
Kate Mort
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
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J. F. Magloughlin comments: I would like to compliment Woodcock & Mort on an important attempt to bring more order to the complex and under-attended world of fault rock classification. The authors aptly point out several of the persistent difficulties in fault rock terminology, such as the original cohesive-versus-incohesive dichotomy in Sibson's (1977) classification, and they appropriately attempt to create a more nongenetic classification scheme.

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fault rockspseudotachylytefault brecciafriction meltingclassification
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Geological Magazine , Volume 147 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 971 - 973
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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