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The story of Tucson extensional geology Undeformed granite Mylonite.

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2 The story of Tucson extensional geology

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6 Undeformed granite Mylonite

7 Low strain High strain

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13 Normal faults throughout - cut foliation and other ductile structures

14 Normal fault

15 Foliation- not sedimentary layering Measurable like bedding-good first indication of direction of ductile deformation

16 Mylonites Porphyroclasts Gneissic banding Rotated crystals

17 Fractured fold - top to the south

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19 S C

20 Top to the south sense of shear

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23 Ductile first Brittle later

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25 X-cutting dike - seals all the ductile deformation- an absolute age on this basaltic material would constrain the end of ductile deformation

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27 Ductile deformation top to the south is given by foliation (direction), sense of shear indicators (folding, S-Cs) and lineation Brittle is overprinted- low angle normal faults cutting the old foliation

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30 Sequence of events:

31 The strength versus depth issue

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