{"id":96,"date":"2014-06-17T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/?p=96"},"modified":"2014-09-09T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T22:00:27","slug":"champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Champlain Thrust chaotic breccia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-97 \" src=\"http:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Champlain thrust chaotic breccia\" width=\"485\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Champlain-thrust-chaotic-breccia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photomicrograph of a chaotic breccia from the Champlain Thrust fault in Vermont. The clasts are Cambrian dolostone from the hanging wall, and the matrix is most likely a mixture of dolostone and black shale from the footwall. According to Woodcock &amp; Mort\u2019s (2008) classification scheme, the fragments larger than 2 mm are considered clasts while the fragments smaller than 2 mm are considered part of the matrix. The rock is matrix-rich, with clasts that have been rotated, making this a chaotic breccia. This picture was taken under a magnification of 25x, under plane light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photomicrograph of a chaotic breccia from the Champlain Thrust fault in Vermont. The clasts are Cambrian dolostone from the hanging wall, and the matrix is most likely a mixture of dolostone and black shale from the footwall. According to Woodcock &amp; Mort\u2019s (2008) classification scheme, the fragments larger than 2 mm are considered clasts while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37,28,34,38,30,35,32,20,9,36],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photomicrographs","tag-black-shale","tag-breccia","tag-champlain-thrust","tag-chaotic-breccia","tag-clast","tag-dolostone","tag-fault-rock","tag-matrix","tag-photomicrograph","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eps.mcgill.ca\/blogs\/faultrocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}