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Kink-bands and Related Geological Structures

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MARSHALL'S statement that I considered “that kink-bands are symmetrically distributed about a planar anisotropy caused by cleavage” is scarcely a fair synopsis of the sentences: “In any one area the kink-bands may all be roughly parallel and all may have the same sense of displacement. However, conjugate sets, composed of kink-bands in two different orientations with complementary displacements, are not uncommon”1. Clearly I fully realized that kink-band systems are not all symmetrical about the foliation and that the symmetrically arranged conjugate set is a special case.

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ANDERSON, T. Kink-bands and Related Geological Structures. Nature 204, 773–774 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204773a0

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