A Study of Pebble Deformation in the Precambrian Rocks of Singhbhum District, Bihar

Abstract

Abstract The deformed pebbles in the conglomerate show a large variation in the orientation of their longest axes as well as in the values of the axial ratios a' and b'. This has been interpreted as due to a nonspherical nature of the original pebbles. The effect of deformation has been separated from the effect of the original shape. It has been shown that a superficial analysis of the shape of deformed pebbles may give a wrong idea about the state of strain in the rocks, and the method by which the true amount of strain can be computed from dc:formed pebbles has been discussed.