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Fracturing features in rocks

 

plumose structure

Roberto Weinberg
Monash University, Australia

 

 

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Photographs from blocks at the Adelaide sea shore (1 km south of Glenelg)

 

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Photographs from the Nubra Valley, Ladakh, NW India in fine-grained volcanic rocks

 

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plumose structure

 

Photographs from the Zanskar Valley, Ladakh, NW India in biotite quartzite of the Karsha Fm.

 

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Fracture plumose structure
Plumose structure curving over 180 degrees on the upper half.