| Coordinates: | 506840 mE 3831476 mN 1245 m (UTM11N NAD83) (Google Maps) |
| Land Status: | Bureau of Land Management |
| Description: | This is an awesome ductile shear zone in Proterozoic orthogneiss of the Mojave block. The augens are quite spectacular, although shear-sense indicators are ambiguous. Such textures form in the mid to lower crust, where rocks deform in a ductile manner instead of in a brittle manner. This generally happens below about 15 km depth. The rock is extremely hard, so bring a hefty sledge! |
| Resources: | We stumbled upon this one. As far as I know, it hasn't been mapped or documented. |
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| Site visited on 2/2/2013 | Page created on 11/15/2014 |