Determination of the Sense of Shear Using the Orientation of Shear Band Foliation in Mylonites: Field Evidence from the Keban Complex, Eastern Turkey

Gültekin SAVCI

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Determination of the Sense of Shear Using the Orientation of Shear Band Foliation in Mylonites: Field Evidence from the Keban Complex, Eastern Turkey

Authors:

Gültekin SAVCI

Publisher:

Maden Tetkik Arama Genel Müdürlüğü

Main Topics:

Applied physics

Journal:

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration 1986 Vol.105-106 Issue 105-106, pp.105-14

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/1986

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000521642

Frequency:

Tri-annual

pISSN:

0026-4563

Abstract:

 


The structural features of the northern part of the Bitlis suture zone of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic
belt (Turkey) show intense internal deformations. The variable lithology and microstructural features of the high strain
zones commonly found in the Keban complex are characterized by mylonitic texture. The Keban complex were formed in
ancient continental margin sedimentary sequences of the northern branch of the Neo-Tethys. Single sets of shear band
foliations occur within mylonite zones composed of strongly foliated phyllitic psammites. Two well defined microscopic
criteria, the tails of the augen structures and smaller scale shear zones which were formed between the relatively undeformed
pod shaped aggregates, are used to deduce the sense of shear in a lithologically inhomogeneous brittle-ductile
shear zone of the Keban complex. The sense of shear determined in this way from the anastomosing part of the shear
zone is then applied to the orientation of shear band foliation in the same shear zone. This microscopic evaluation of the
structures suggests that the acute angle between the shear band foliation and the mylonitic foliation points in the shear
direction as proposed by earlier research which were based on experimental studies. Therefore, the determination of
sense the of shearing in the field using the orientation of shear band foliations in mylonites is suggested.

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Article Details

Determination of the Sense of Shear Using the Orientation of Shear Band Foliation in Mylonites: Field Evidence from the Keban Complex, Eastern Turkey

Authors: Gültekin SAVCI

Publisher: Maden Tetkik Arama Genel Müdürlüğü

Main Topics: Applied physics

Journal: Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration 1986 Vol.105-106 Issue 105-106, pp.105-14

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/1986

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000521642

Frequency: Tri-annual

pISSN: 0026-4563

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Authors:

Gültekin SAVCI

Publisher:

Maden Tetkik Arama Genel Müdürlüğü

Main Topics:

Applied physics

Journal:

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration 1986 Vol.105-106 Issue 105-106, pp.105-14

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/1986

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000521642

Frequency:

Tri-annual

pISSN:

0026-4563