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Mylonite layers show evidence of thinning and flattening. They are thought to develop approximately perpendicular to the direction of principal stress much the same way as In the development of cleavage in slate
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JOHNSON, M. Mylonite Zones and Mylonite Banding. Nature 213, 246–247 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213246a0
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