Quaker Run mylonite
A little follow-up to this morning's post of pictures from the Garth Run high-strain zone. A short distance away is the Quaker Run high-strain zone, which I visited in spring of 2003 with my geology graduate advisor, Dazhi Jiang, and two other structure students from the University of Maryland, College Park. Here's a beautiful sample of the mylonite I collected then:
The sample is cut and polished. The maximum dimensions of the sample are ~15.0 cm (+ or - 2 mm). Particularly striking is the large amount of epidote in the sample and the alignment of the feldspar porphyroclasts along the plane of foliation. Some have been bookshelfed and boudinaged, too.
Labels: appalachians, blue ridge, metamorphism, structure
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