Figure F146. A. Backscatter SEM photo of slightly zoned dynamically recrystallized clinopyroxene in a granulite-facies shear zone cutting gabbro (Sample 304-U1309D-16R-5, 48–50 cm). Note equant Ti-amphibole (Ti amph) grains probably deformed with the clinopyroxene (Cpx) and later actinolite pervading grain boundaries. For electron microprobe data from this sample, see Table T9. B. Backscatter SEM photo of Fe-rich clinopyroxene veins cutting large clinopyroxene grain with thin orthopyroxene exsolution lamellae in a coronitic-textured olivine gabbro (Sample 305-U1309D-26R-2, 21–24 cm). Note slight sinistral shear across veined zone and probable fluid inclusions. Dark phase at lower right is plagioclase, with a feathery hornblende alteration rim on the clinopyroxene. (Photographs taken by Eric Condliffe, Leeds University.)
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