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Petrofabric Analysis of Marbles from Mid-Strathspey and Strathavon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Donald B. McIntyre  and
Francis J. Turner
Donald B. McIntyre
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
Francis J. Turner
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Petrofabric analyses of marble specimens from three widely separated localities in Mid-Strathspey and Strathavon are recorded. Preferred orientation of [0001] in the constituent grains of calcite conforms to a B-tectonite pattern, the symmetry axis (B) of which coincides with the b axis of the megascopic fabric (lineation and fold axis) at each locality. Development of {011¯2} lamellae in calcite grains is attributed to late minor compression, the direction of which is more or less horizontal and trends between N.E.–S.W. and E.N.E.–W.S.W.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 90 , Issue 4 , August 1953 , pp. 225 - 240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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