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Zanskar Normal Shear Zone, NW India

Gumbaranjon injection network

Roberto Weinberg, Pavlina Hasalova, Melanie Finch, Lindsay Ward
Monash University, Australia

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S-C fabric


a) S-C -C'fabric in porphyrytic orthogneiss at Reru close to the river and bridge.	b) S-C -C'fabric in porphyrytic orthogneiss and narrow shear leucogranite dykes, at Reru close to the river and bridge.

c) S-C -C'fabric in porphyrytic orthogneiss at Reru close to the river and bridge.	d) S-C -C'fabric in porphyrytic orthogneiss and narrow shear leucogranite dykes, at Reru close to the river and bridge.

e) S-C rotation of three parallel dykelets. Top-side down, normal shearing.

C'-S-C fabric


e) An excellent example of C', on same granite as a and b.	f) An excellent example of C', on same granite as a and b.

g) An excellent example of C', on orthogneiss.	h) S-C fabric and delta clasts derived from the breaking up of leucogranite dykes, cut by a synthetic shear zone, parallel to C'. Note that some of the veinlets are continuous over most of the photograph.

Layer truncation and breaking up


i) A more competent Tml- leucogranite layer (underneath the lens cap), with an internal foliation, truncated by the C-plane of shearing, both above (right) and below (left) , parallel to layering.	j) Detail of (i).

Asymmetric folding


k)Continuous leucogranite dyke from upper left to lower right, folded asymmmetrically, and cut by synthetic shear zones, with right-side-down.	l) on the right, folded leucogranite below a dyke parallel to C-plane and cut by normal synthetic shear zone.

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