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Figure F26. Photograph of Shinkai 6500 dive sample 425-R007, a peridotite mylonite ~45 cm long, recovered from a planar, striated outcrop surface dipping ~20° to the west, just a few tens of meters from the site of Hole 1270A. Textures in this sample record localized mylonitic deformation of peridotite at ~600°C, strikingly different from textures in peridotites from Holes 1270A, 1270C, and 1270D, which record protogranular to mildly porphyroclastic deformation at temperatures >1000°C, except within a few millimeters of gabbro-hosted, mylonitic shear zones.

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