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15 November 2012
Neoacadian Inner Piedmont trip, part III: Mesozoic cataclasite
Quartzite, shattered and healed and shattered again and again and again. It’s cataclasite, seen in the North Carolina Piedmont and inferred to be Mesozoic in age due to its brittle style of deformation.