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Metamorphic Rocks
Foliations, and Lineations
Topics
• Fabrics
• Foliation, cleavage, lineation
– Cleavage and Folds
– Geometry
– Strain significance
• Origin of Cleavage
– Pressure solution
– Passive rotation
– Recrystallization
• Shear zones
Geothermal Gradient and
Metamorphism
Naming of Metamorphic Rocks
Slatey cleavage
Gneiss
Looks Like Bedding, but is it?
Metamorphic layering
Broosk Range, AK
Isoclinal Fold
Quartz-mica schist
Fabric Elements
•Bedding
•Compositional layering
•Mineral grains
•Fold Hinges
•Axial planes
•Planes of parting or fracture
•etc
Metamorphic Fabrics
• Foliation
– Cleavage
– Schistosity
• Lineation
S-tectonite
L-tectonite
L/S-tectonite
Random fabric
Foliation
Lineation
Penetrative Fabric
Spaced Fabric
Cleavage
• A kind of foliation
• Deformation Fabric
• Rock splits along preferred planes
Lachlan fold belt, Australia
Photo by E.L.Miller
Spaced cleavage
Cambrian Rocks,
South Verkhoyansk
foldbelt, Siberia
The beginning of
Metamorphism:
Axial Planar
Cleavage
Relationship o cleavage to
folding
Axial-planar cleavage
Axial Planar cleavage
Processes of Cleavage
Development
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Rotation of minerals
Crenulation
Pressure solution
Recrystallization
SEM Image of Clays in Shale
Pressure solution in Clay-rich
Limestone
Early pressure-solution cleavage
in limestone
Small quartz vein cut by a spaced crenulation/solution cleavage
Documenting the extent of material removal along these surfaces.
Photo from David Gray, Monash University, Australia
Sequential diagram of % shortening by folding (initially by
buckling), cleavage development and dissolution.
Courtesy of David Gray, Monash University, Australia
Sandstone after compaction
Beginning of foliation
Crenulation Cleavage
Small scale kinks and pressure solution surfaces
Crenulation Cleavage Beginning
More Advanced Fabric
Coarse Sandstone-Strong Foliation
Two Foliations!
S2
S1
Spaced Pressure-Solution Cleavage
Shortening by folding vs. shortening by cleavage
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