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Pseudotachylytes are cohesive glassy or very fine-grained fault rocks that characteristically occur in veins. They are composed of an extremely fine-grained or glassy matrix with inclusions of wall-rock fragments. Commonly, a straight main fault vein (Sibson 1975; Spray 1992) representing a generation surface (Fig. 1.1) is present, from which smaller injection veins branch out. The main criteria to distinguish pseudotachylytes from cataclasites are
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Trouw, R.A.J., Passchier, C.W., Wiersma, D.J. (2010). Pseudotachylytes. In: Atlas of Mylonites- and related microstructures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03608-8_3
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