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Pale pink vein folded into a tight zigzag of loops, crossing finely striped dark grey and reddish rock, with a red-handled geological hammer at the bottom for scale.
Ptygmatic fold crossing a mylonite, within a paragneiss. Sophie Graul
Close-up of a banded rock face with pale grey quartz lenses wrapped by wavy dark grey and brown mica-rich layers, with a gold-coloured coin for scale.
S-C mylonite in the Calamita Schists (Island of Elba, Italy) Samuele Papeschi
Thin-section micrograph in crossed polars of a mylonite: diagonal bands of small black, grey and white quartz grains separated by thin streaks of golden-brown fine mica.
Quartz - sericite mylonite, Calamita, Elba Samuele Papeschi
Thin-section micrograph of a pale, rounded feldspar grain wrapped in curving dark and light bands of fine-grained rock, cut and slightly offset by straight diagonal cracks.
Broken Rolling Philippe Hervé Leloup
Thin-section micrograph of a row of pale oval feldspar grains embedded in streaming dark brown and grey bands, which curl around each grain like water around stones in a stream.
Rolling Train Philippe Hervé Leloup

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