Pressure solution cleavage. Note the narrow dark bands crossing the sandy mudstone beds. Quartz has been removed from these bands and deposited in quartz veins nearby. The more massive layers have fewer dark solution bands running across them. Ilfracombe Bay, Devon, UK.
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Pressure solution cleavage. Note the narrow dark bands crossing the sandy mudstone beds. Quartz has been removed from these bands and deposited in quartz veins nearby. The more massive layers have fewer dark solution bands running across them. Ilfracombe Bay, Devon, UK.
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Photograph: Jim Talbot
Reference: See more photos at : http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/talbot/cdgeol/Localities/DevonCornwall.html