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Mylonite, Slickensides, and the Great Glen Fault1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. J. Shand
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Abstract

It is shown that mylonite is extremely rare in the plane of the Great Glen fault, and that horizontal slickensides or friction-grooves directed along the Glen are virtually absent. Grave doubt is consequently thrown on the alleged horizontal displacement in the fault zone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 6 , December 1951 , pp. 423 - 428
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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Communicated to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section C, 13th August, 1951.

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