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Mullion and Boudinage Structure in Coryton Slate Quarry, near Okehampton, Devonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. R. Dearman
W. R. Dearman
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
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Abstract

Bedding mullions have been produced by compression parallel to bedding in the hinge region of a large recumbent fold. Geometrically, the mullions are a combination of parasitic folding, with characteristic gadrooned profile, and cleavage planes. The cleavage is not an axial plane structure, but where fully developed produces a perfect slate fabric in rocks of appropriate lithology. The mullions are found on both sides of a bed of inferior slate sandwiched between two beds of good roofing slate. Boudinage structure results where the mullions are exactly back to back, and the planes of separation provided by the cleavage are infilled with coarse calcite. The slates are interbedded and interlaminated with limestone.

Such boudins are unusual in that they occupy the hinge region of a fold and result from compression parallel, rather than at right angles, to the bedding.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 3 , June 1966 , pp. 204 - 213
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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