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mylonitic

mylonitic adjective: containing mylonite.

Adjective

mylonitic (not comparable)

  1. Containing mylonite.
    • Fibrous strain fringes up to ~12 mm long surrounding large (~5 mm) pyrites were collected from mylonitic carbonate-rich slates of Aptian age [~110 million years ago (Ma)] in the immediate hanging wall of a north-directed thrust of the Northern Pyrenees near Lourdes, France.2000 June 23, Wolfgang Muller et al., “Isotopic Dating of Strain Fringe Increments: Duration and Rates of Deformation in Shear Zones”, in Science, volume 288, number 5474, →DOI, pages 2195–2198

Origin of mylonitic

From mylonite + -ic.

Questions about mylonitic

What does mylonitic mean?
Mylonitic means containing mylonite.
What part of speech is mylonitic?
Mylonitic is an adjective.

Words near mylonitic in the dictionary

  1. mylohyoids
  2. Myloi
  3. mylonisation
  4. mylonite
  5. mylonites
  6. mylonitic
  7. mylonitisation
  8. mylonitise
  9. mylonitization
  10. mylonitizations
  11. mylonitize

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