Quartzite, shattered and healed and shattered again and again and again. It’s cataclasite, seen in the North Carolina Piedmont and inferred to be Mesozoic in age due to its brittle style of deformation.
Quartzite, shattered and healed and shattered again and again and again. It’s cataclasite, seen in the North Carolina Piedmont and inferred to be Mesozoic in age due to its brittle style of deformation.
such a fun name – am I right in assuming the name shares the same etymology as “cataclysm?” And nice Emriver mech pencil for scale 🙂
That “cata” prefix is a fun one… catalyst is another eg. And “clast” means “broken.”
Is the quartzite or deformation Mesozoic?
The deformation is Mesozoic. I’m not sure of the age of the quartzite – could be a Mesozoic vein, or a metasedimentary unit that is part of the Neoacadian story.