Mylonite de Miéville
Back to Aiguilles RougesRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Miéville-Mylonit
- Français
- Mylonite de Miéville
- Italiano
- Milonite di Miéville
- English
- Miéville Mylonite
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- mylonites de Miéville (Meyer 1916, Pilloud 1991), zone de mylonitisation (Corbin & Oulianoff 1931), --- (Kerrich et al. 1980), Miéville ultramylonite (Bonin et al. 1993), Miéville shear zone (Egli 2013)
Description
- Description
- dark, extremely fine-grained, slate-like rock (ultramylonite)
- Thickness
- 150-175 m (Corbin & Oulianoff 1931)
References
- Definition
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(2001) :
Mont-Blanc, Aiguilles-Rouges massifs (External Massifs) - an example of polyorogenic evolution. Fieldtrip Guide 1, 53-84, Univ. Lausanne
p.67: The Vallorcine granite was subsequently affected along its SE contact by an intense low-T ductile shearing leading to the well-known “Miéville ultramylonite” (Kerrich et al. 1980) of Late Variscan age (but reworked during the Alpine orogeny).
Material and varia
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MIEVILLE, Granite de … – Palaeozoikum – Helvetikum (Kristallin)
Synonyme du granite de Vallorcine