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Application of scanning X-ray analytical microscope to the petrographic characterization of a ductile shear zone: an example from the Teshima shear zone, Setonaikai, Japan.

  • Michibayashi, K., Togami, S., Takano, M., Kumazawa, M. and Kageyama, T. 1999. Tectonophysics, 310, 55-67.
  • Togami, S., Takano, M., Kumazawa, M. and Michibayashi, K., 2000. Canadian Mineralogist, 38, part 5, in press.

   
Width of base: ca. 30 mm.

Modified after Figure 2A of Michibayashi et al. (1999, Tectonophysics).
Roughly polished specimen of half a shear zone within the metasomatic biotite band.


Scale unit: 0.1 mm.

Figure 7 of Michibayashi et al. (1999, Tectonophysics).
An image of the spatial distribution of minerals based on chemical maps obtained from the scanning X-ray analytical microscope.
Red: quartz; blue: biotite; yellow: plagioclase; green: K-feldspar.