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| Detail of an aplite margin |
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| Aplites (pale units) and gneisses. Note that the aplite sheets are essentially parallel although - at the foot of the image - one of the thin sheets appears to have brached from the main sheet. What does this imply for values of shear strain (assuming that originally the branches formed at a high angle to the main aplite sheet)? |