mylonitic

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adjective

Containing mylonite.

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Meanings

adjectivemylonitic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableContaining mylonite.

    Fibrous strain fringes up to ~12 mm long surrounding large (~5 mm) pyrites were collected from mylonitic carbonate-rich slates of Aptian age [~110 million years ago (Ma)] in the immediate hanging wall of a north-directed thrust of the Northern Pyrenees near Lourdes, France.

    2000 June 23, Wolfgang Muller et al., “Isotopic Dating of Strain Fringe Increments: Duration and Rates of Deformation in Shear Zones”, in Science, volume 288, number 5474, →DOI, pages 2195–2198

Origin

From mylonite + -ic.

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Translations

German mylonitisch
  • mylonitischTranslations
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APA

mylonitic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mylonitic

MLA

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Chicago

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