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Mineral fish are either single or aggregates of minerals that are ductile sheared. Three common shapes of mineral fish are sigmoid, lenticular and parallelogram.
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Mukherjee, S. (2013). Mineral Fish and D′′uctile Shear Senses. In: Deformation Microstructures in Rocks. Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25608-0_1
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