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COMMON phenomena observed in gneissic terrains include the remarkable contortions shown by the compositional layers within the gneisses. Some of the more simple deformations have been analysed and accounted for adequately1, but the more complicated contortions have been dismissed as ‘flow folding’, ‘plastic folding’, etc., with no further note.
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WILLIAMS, E. Geometrically Complicated Monogenetic Flow Folds. Nature 197, 68 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197068a0
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