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The temperature range for the formation of this group of mylonites is approximately 500 to 650 °C. In medium-grade mylonites quartz is usually fully recrystallised, mainly by subgrain rotation, and has grown to a polygonal crystalloblastic fabric of strain free grains with an average grain size exceeding about 50 micrometers.
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Trouw, R.A.J., Passchier, C.W., Wiersma, D.J. (2010). Medium-Grade Mylonites. In: Atlas of Mylonites- and related microstructures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03608-8_5
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