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Rock 366 : Day 29 : Sheared Limestone Conglomerate

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Day 29 : A sheared limestone conglomerate. Unknown locality. Keele Collection.

Rock 366 : Day 28 : Sheared Granite

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Day 28 : Gneissosity developed by deformation of granite. From the Lewisian near Gairloch, Scottish Highlands. Keele colloection. 

Rock 366 : Day 27 : Folded Schist

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Day 27 : Refolded folds. Superimposition of later open folds on earlier isoclinal folds in the Eilde Schists of Loch Leven, Scotland.

Rock 366 : Day 26 : Folded Phyllite

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Day 26 : Folding in a phyllite containing alternating layers of psammite and pelite.  Note the differing behaviour of the competent and incompetent layers. New Harbour Group, Holyhead, Anglesey. Keele Collection.

Rock 366 : Day 25 : Sheared Limestone

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Day 25 : This is the Mid-Devonian Chercombe Bridge Limestone Formation from Buckfastleigh in Devon. Fossil fragments and ooids are stretched out in the cleavage direction by shearing. Keele collection. 

Rock 366 : Day 24 : Folded Psammite

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Day 24 : A folded psammite from an unknown locality.  Note the change in fold style from rounded to angular and variation of wavelength across the sample. Keele collection.

Rock 366 : Day 23 : Protomylonite

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Day 23 : A protomylonite from Stevenson Lake, Manitoba, Canada.  Quartz has reduced in grain size but feldspars remain as porphyroblastic 'augen'. Keele Collection.

Rock 366 : Day 22 : Crenulated Slate

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Day 22 : A slate (graphitic pelite - probably Ballachulish Slate Formation) from Onich, near Fort William in Scotland displaying a crenulation (vertical) and bedding / cleavage intersection lineation (horizontal). Keele collection.

Rock 366 : Day 21 : Folded Psammite

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Day 21 : Folded psammite layer in mica-schist. Folded original schistosity and new axial-planar schistosity developing. Probably from the Neoproterozic Carn Mairg Quartzite Formation, Allt Bhrachain, Camusvrachan, Glen Lyon, Scotland.

Rock 366 : Day 20 : Folded Schist

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Day 20 : Here we have a mica schist, with a strong schistocity and mica mineral lineation that has been subsequently folded. Unknown locality, Keele collection.