Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A belt of rock crushed and metamorphosed by compression. Along shear-zones massive rocks become schists.
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Copper and associated gold, silver, lead and zinc mineralisation is hosted in a brecciated shear-zone several metres wide within sediments.
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