1. Metamorphic Textures Textures of Regional Metamorphism
Dynamothermal (crystallization under dynamic conditions)
Orogeny- long-term mountain-building
May comprise several Tectonic Events
May have several Deformational Phases
May have an accompanying Metamorphic Cycles with one or more Reaction Events

2. Metamorphic Textures Textures of Regional Metamorphism
Tectonite- a deformed rock with a texture that records the deformation
Fabric- the complete spatial and geometric configuration of textural elements
Foliation- planar textural element
Lineation- linear textural element
Lattice Preferred Orientation (LPO)
Dimensional Preferred Orientation (DPO)

3. Progressive syntectonic metamorphism of a volcanic graywacke, New Zealand. From Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.
Progressive syntectonic metamorphism of a volcanic graywacke, NZ
Both plag and Kfs in isotropic matrix
Alteration to fine sericite and secondary Ca-Al silicates

4. Progressive syntectonic metamorphism of a volcanic graywacke, New Zealand. From Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.
Pervasive foliation develops due mostly to shear
Grain size reduction
Porphyroclasts common and rounded
Matrix recrystallized and new minerals form (Qtz, Ep, Sericite, Ab, Chl)
Chl & Ser enhance foliation

5. Progressive syntectonic metamorphism of a volcanic graywacke, New Zealand. From Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.
Fine-grained schist with larger crystals- no relict gy textures
Good muscovite and biotite define schistosity
Some metamorphic differentiation to layering
Qtz and Ab are polygonal mosaic in mica-free layers (even though dynamothermal)

6. Progressive syntectonic metamorphism of a volcanic graywacke, New Zealand. From Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.
Good schist with coarser grains
More enhanced segregation into layers
Plag no longer Ab- accepts more Ca at higher T
Garnet is a new isograd mineral

7. Fig 23-21 Types of foliations
a. Compositional layering
b. Preferred orientation of platy minerals
c. Shape of deformed grains
d. Grain size variation
e. Preferred orientation of platy minerals in a matrix without preferred orientation
f. Preferred orientation of lenticular mineral aggregates
g. Preferred orientation of fractures
h. Combinations of the above
Note in (e) that linear minerals may also define a foliation if randomly oriented in a plane
Use S-surface terminology So – S1 – S2 – S3 …
Figure Types of fabric elements that may define a foliation. From Turner and Weiss (1963) and Passchier and Trouw (1996).

8. Figure A morphological (non-genetic) classification of foliations. After Powell (1979) Tectonophys., 58, 21-34; Borradaile et al. (1982) Atlas of Deformational and Metamorphic Rock Fabrics. Springer-Verlag; and Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

9. Figure (continued)

10. a b
Continuous schistosity by dynamic recrystallization of biotite, muscovite, and quartz
Minerals are entirely strain-free so crystallization outlasted deformation
Figure Continuous schistosity developed by dynamic recrystallization of biotite, muscovite, and quartz. a. Plane-polarized light, width of field 1 mm. b. Crossed-polars, width of field 2 mm. Although there is a definite foliation in both samples, the minerals are entirely strain-free.

11. Progressive development (a  c) of a crenulation cleavage for both asymmetric (top) and symmetric (bottom) situations. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

12. Symmetric crenulation cleavage
Figure 23-24a. Symmetrical crenulation cleavages in amphibole-quartz-rich schist. Note concentration of quartz in hinge areas. From Borradaile et al. (1982) Atlas of Deformational and Metamorphic Rock Fabrics. Springer-Verlag.

13. Asymmetric crenulation cleavage
Figure 23-24b. Asymmetric crenulation cleavages in mica-quartz-rich schist. Note horizontal compositional layering (relict bedding) and preferential dissolution of quartz from one limb of the folds. From Borradaile et al. (1982) Atlas of Deformational and Metamorphic Rock Fabrics. Springer-Verlag.

14. Figure Stages in the development of crenulation cleavage as a function of temperature and intensity of the second deformation. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.
Development of S2 micas depends upon T and the intensity of the second deformation

15. Types of lineations
a. Preferred orientation of elongated mineral aggregates
b. Preferred orientation of elongate minerals
c. Lineation defined by platy minerals
d. Fold axes (especially of crenulations)
e. Intersecting planar elements.
Use L terminology Lo – L1 – L2 – L3 …
Figure Types of fabric elements that define a lineation. From Turner and Weiss (1963) Structural Analysis of Metamorphic Tectonites. McGraw Hill.

16. Figure 23-27. Proposed mechanisms for the development of foliations
Mechanical rotation. b. Preferred growth normal to compression. c. Grains with advantageous orientation grow whereas those with poor orientation do not (or dissolve). d. Minerals change shape by ductile deformation. e. Pressure solution. f. A combination of a and e. g. Constrained growth between platy minerals. h. Mimetic growth following an existing foliation.
Figure Proposed mechanisms for the development of foliations. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

17. Figure 23-28. Development of foliation by simple shear and pure shear (flattening)
Beginning with randomly oriented planar or linear
Beginning with equidimensional crystals
Beginning with with pre-existing foliation
Shaded figures represent an initial sphere and the resulting strain ellipsoid
Figure Development of foliation by simple shear and pure shear (flattening). After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

18. Development of an axial-planar cleavage in folded metasediments
Development of an axial-planar cleavage in folded metasediments. Circular images are microscopic views showing that the axial-planar cleavage is a crenulation cleavage, and is developed preferentially in the micaceous layers. From Gilluly, Waters and Woodford (1959) Principles of Geology, W.H. Freeman; and Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.

19. Diagram showing that structural and fabric elements are generally consistent in style and orientation at all scales. From Best (1982). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. W. H. Freeman. San Francisco.
The fractal nature of geology

20. Pre-kinematic crystals Bent crystal with undulose extinction
Foliation wrapped around a porphyroblast
Pressure shadow or fringe
Kink bands or folds
Microboudinage
Deformation twins
Figure Typical textures of pre-kinematic crystals. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

21. Post-kinematic crystals
Helicitic folds b. Randomly oriented crystals c. Polygonal arcs d. Chiastolite e. Late, inclusion-free rim on a poikiloblast (?) f. Random aggregate pseudomorph
Helicitic folds in Si. b. Randomly oriented elongate crystals. c. Polygonal arcs of straight crystal segments in a fold. d. Chiastolite with central Si concordant with Se. e. Late, inclusion-free rim on a poikiloblast. The rim may be post-kinematic. f. Random aggregate of grains of one mineral pseudomorphing a single crystal of another (chlorite after garnet). The chlorite is post-kinematic.
Figure Typical textures of post-kinematic crystals. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

22. Syn-kinematic crystals
Paracrystalline microboudinage Spiral Porphyroblast
Si and Se for internal and external S in porphyroblasts
Question as to whether porphyroblasts rotate or matrix rotates around them
Figure Traditional interpretation of spiral Si train in which a porphyroblast is rotated by shear as it grows. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.
Figure Syn-crystallization micro-boudinage. Syn-kinematic crystal growth can be demonstrated by the color zoning that grows and progressively fills the gap between the separating fragments. After Misch (1969) Amer. J. Sci., 267,

23. Syn-kinematic crystals
Spiral Garnet in schist
Figure Spiral Si train in garnet, Connemara, Ireland. Magnification ~20X. From Yardley et al. (1990) Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and their Textures. Longmans.

24. Syn-kinematic crystals
An alternative interpretation in which shear is localized and progressively expands (white zones)
Porphyroblasts do not rotate
Note that pink one grows into sheared area and appears with snowball rim
Figure Non-uniform distribution of shear strain as proposed by Bell et al. (1986) J. Metam. Geol., 4, Blank areas represent high shear strain and colored areas are low-strain. Lines represent initially horizontal inert markers (S1). Note example of porphyroblast growing preferentially in low-strain regions.

25. Syn-kinematic crystals
Figure “Snowball garnet” with highly rotated spiral Si. Porphyroblast is ~ 5 mm in diameter. From Yardley et al. (1990) Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and their Textures. Longmans.
Snowball Garnet in schist

26. Figure Si characteristics of clearly pre-, syn-, and post-kinematic crystals as proposed by Zwart (1962). a. Progressively flattened Si from core to rim. b. Progressively more intense folding of Si from core to rim. c. Spiraled Si due to rotation of the matrix or the porphyroblast during growth. After Zwart (1962) Geol. Rundschau, 52,

27. Analysis of Deformed Rocks
Deformational events: D1 D2 D3 …
Metamorphic events: M1 M2 M3 …
Foliations: So S1 S2 S3 …
Lineations: Lo L1 L2 L3 …
Plot on a metamorphism-deformation-time plot showing the crystallization of each mineral

28. Analysis of Deformed Rocks
Figure (left) Asymmetric crenulation cleavage (S2) developed over S1 cleavage. S2 is folded, as can be seen in the dark sub-vertical S2 bands. Field width ~ 2 mm. Right: sequential analysis of the development of the textures. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.
Assume S3 -> bent micas

29. Analysis of Deformed Rocks
Figure Graphical analysis of the relationships between deformation (D), metamorphism (M), mineral growth, and textures in the rock illustrated in Figure Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

30. Analysis of Deformed Rocks
Figure Graphical analysis of the relationships between deformation (D), metamorphism (M), mineral growth, and textures in the rock illustrated in Figure Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.
Layers may be bedding (So) or metamorphic differentiation (S1) continuous or lensoidal?
Orientation of micas is S1
Good spiral Si in garnets and “Si = Se”
Layering slightly compressed about garnets
Good granoblastic polygonal texture in quartz layers where no mica: xlliz outlasted defm
Figure Composite sketch of some common textures in Pikikiruna Schist, N.Z. Garnet diameter is ~ 1.5 mm. From Shelley (1993) Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Under the Microscope. Chapman and Hall.

31. Figure Textures in a hypothetical andalusite porphyryoblast-mica schist. After Bard (1986) Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks. Reidel. Dordrecht.
Figure Graphical analysis of the relationships between deformation (D), metamorphism (M), mineral growth, and textures in the rock illustrated in Figure Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.
Layers may be bedding (So) or metamorphic differentiation (S1) continuous or lensoidal?
Orientation of micas is S1
Good spiral Si in garnets and “Si = Se”
Layering slightly compressed about garnets
Good granoblastic polygonal texture in quartz layers where no mica: xlliz outlasted defm

32. Figure 23-48a. Interpreted sequential development of a polymetamorphic rock. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

33. Figure 23-48b. Interpreted sequential development of a polymetamorphic rock. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

34. Figure 23-48c. Interpreted sequential development of a polymetamorphic rock. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

35. Post-kinematic: Si is identical to and continuous with Se
Pre-kinematic: Porphyroblasts are post-S2. Si is inherited from an earlier deformation. Se is compressed about the porphyroblast in (c) and a pressure shadow develops.
Syn-kinematic: Rotational porphyroblasts in which Si is continuous with Se suggesting that deformation did not outlast porphyroblast growth.
From Yardley (1989) An Introduction to Metamorphic Petrology. Longman.

36. Deformation may not be of the same style or even coeval throughout an orogen
Stage I: D1 in forearc (A) migrates away from the arc over time. Area (B) may have some deformation associated with pluton emplacement, area (C) has no deformation at all
Figure Hypothetical development of an orogenic belt involving development and eventual accretion of a volcanic island arc terrane. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

37. Deformation may not be of the same style or even coeval throughout an orogen
Stage II: D2 overprints D1 in forearc (A) in the form of sub-horizontal folding and back-thrusting as pushed against arc crust. Area (C) begins new subduction zone with thrusting and folding migrating toward trench.
Figure Hypothetical development of an orogenic belt involving development and eventual accretion of a volcanic island arc terrane. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

38. Deformation may not be of the same style or even coeval throughout an orogen
Stage III: Accretion deforms whole package. More resistant arc crust gets a D1 event. D2 overprints D1 in forearc (A) and in pluton-emplacement structures in (B). Area (C) in the suture zone gets D3 overprinting D2 recumbent folds on D1 foliations.
Figure Hypothetical development of an orogenic belt involving development and eventual accretion of a volcanic island arc terrane. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

39. The orogen as it may now appear following uplift and erosion.
Deformation may not be of the same style or even coeval throughout an orogen
The orogen as it may now appear following uplift and erosion.
Figure Hypothetical development of an orogenic belt involving development and eventual accretion of a volcanic island arc terrane. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

40. Coronas and Reaction Rims
Figure Reaction rims and coronas. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

41. The orthopyroxene-clinopyroxene coronas and subsequent garnet developed as the anorthosite cooled during burial and compression due to thrust stacking and nappe development
The amphibole corona developed during uplift as water became available, and later rapid uplift and decompression at relatively high temperatures resulted in the decomposition of garnet to produce a symplectitic intergrowth (“S”) of fine-grained orthopyroxene + plagioclase  spinel  clinopyroxene.
Figure Portion of a multiple coronite developed as concentric rims due to reaction at what was initially the contact between an olivine megacryst and surrounding plagioclase in anorthosites of the upper Jotun Nappe, W. Norway. From Griffen (1971) J. Petrol., 12,

42. Photomicrograph of multiple reaction rims between olivine (green, left) and plagioclase (right).

43. Coronites in outcrop. Cores of orthopyroxene (brown) with successive rims of clinopyroxene (dark green) and garnet (red) in an anorthositic matrix. Austrheim, Norway.

44. Figures not used
Figure a. Migration of a vacancy in a familiar game. b. Plastic horizontal shortening of a crystal by vacancy migration. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag. Berlin.

45. Figures not used
Figure Plastic deformation of a crystal lattice (experiencing dextral shear) by the migration of an edge dislocation (as viewed down the axis of the dislocation).

46. Figures not used
Figure Gneissic anorthositic‑amphibolite (light color on right) reacts to become eclogite (darker on left) as left-lateral shear transposes the gneissosity and facilitates the amphibolite‑to‑eclogite reaction. Bergen area, Norway. Two-foot scale courtesy of David Bridgwater. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

47. Figures not used
Figure Skeletal or web texture of staurolite in a quartzite. The gray intergranular material, and the mass in the lower left, are all part of a single large staurolite crystal. Pateca, New Mexico. Width of view ~ 5 mm. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

48. Figures not used
Figure 23-16a. Large polygonized quartz crystals with undulose extinction and subgrains that show sutured grain boundaries caused by recrystallization. Compare to Figure 23-15b, in which little, if any, recrystallization has occurred. From Urai et al. (1986) Dynamic recrystallization of minerals. In B. E. Hobbs and H. C. Heard (eds.), Mineral and Rock Deformation: Laboratory Studies. Geophysical Monograph 36. AGU.

49. Figures not used
Figure 23-16b. Vein-like pseudotachylite developed in gneisses, Hebron Fjord area, N. Labrador, Canada. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

50. Figures not used
Figure Some features that permit the determination of sense-of-shear. All examples involve dextral shear. s1 is oriented as shown. a. Passive planar marker unit (shaded) and foliation oblique to shear planes. b. S-C foliations. c. S-C’ foliations. After Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

51. Figures not used
Figure Augen Gneiss. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

52. Figures not used
Figure Mantled porphyroclasts and “mica fish” as sense-of-shear indicators. After Passchier and Simpson (1986) Porphyroclast systems as kinematic indicators. J. Struct. Geol., 8,

53. Figures not used
Figure Other methods to determine sense-of-shear. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

54. Figures not used
Figure Deformed quartzite in which elongated quartz crystals following shear, recovery, and recrystallization. Note the broad and rounded suturing due to coalescence. Field width ~ 1 cm. From Spry (1969) Metamorphic Textures. Pergamon. Oxford.

55. Figures not used
Figure Kink bands involving cleavage in deformed chlorite. Inclusions are quartz (white), and epidote (lower right). Field of view ~ 1 mm. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

56. Figures not used
Figure Examples of petrofabric diagrams. a. Crystal c-axes cluster in a shallow inclination to the NE. b. Crystal axes form a girdle of maxima that represents folding of an earlier LPO. Poles cluster as normals to fold limbs. b represents the fold axis. The dashed line represents the axial plane, and suggests that s1 was approximately E-W and horizontal. From Turner and Weiss (1963) Structural Analysis of Metamorphic Tectonites. McGraw Hill.

57. Figures not used
Figure Pelitic schist with three s-surfaces. S0 is the compositional layering (bedding) evident as the quartz-rich (left) half and mica-rich (right) half. S1 (subvertical) is a continuous slaty cleavage. S2 (subhorizontal) is a later crenulation cleavage. Field width ~4 mm. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

58. Figures not used
Figure Illustration of an Al2SiO5 poikiloblast that consumes more muscovite than quartz, thus inheriting quartz (and opaque) inclusions. The nature of the quartz inclusions can be related directly to individual bedding substructures. Note that some quartz is consumed by the reaction, and that quartz grains are invariably rounded. From Passchier and Trouw (1996) Microtectonics. Springer-Verlag.

59. Figures not used
Figure Initial shear strain causes transposition of foliation. c. Continued strain during the same phase causes folding of the foliation. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

60. Figures not used a b
Figure a. Mesh texture in which serpentine (dark) replaces a single olivine crystal (light) along irregular cracks. b. Serpentine pseudomorphs orthopyroxene to form bastite in the upper portion of photograph, giving way to mesh olivine below. Field of view ca. 0.1 mm. Fidalgo sepentinite, WA state. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.