Abstract
Low-grade albite and peristerite mylonites occur as a northeast-tapering, 200- to 300-m-wide zone structurally above basal cataclasite on the Alpine fault (New Zealand). They form an inverted metamorphic sequence grading eastward into an approximately 1-km-wide, amphibolite-facies-derived mylonite zone in the hanging wall. Their mineralogy matches low-grade protoliths that occur 100 to 110 km to the southeast. This displacement is compatible with distributed lateral and vertical shear within the mylonite zone since inception of significant convergence on the plate boundary in the late Neogene.