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Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.

Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.
Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.
Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.
Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.
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Tucholke, Brian E.
Death Valley complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias.
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01/01/1997
Tucholke fig 6.jpg
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 41, No. 1, Pg. 19:
Continental metamorphic core complexes are often, and appropriately, called “turtlebacks.” Here in Death Valley, the domed, gray core complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias at right is separated from brown upper crustal volcanics and sediments by the northwest-dipping Copper Canyon detachment fault. Width of view is about a kilometer along the contact with the alluvial plain in the foreground.
Photo by Brian Tucholke
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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