autoclastic

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autoclastic

[¦ȯd·ō¦klas·tik]

(geology)

Of rock, fragmented in place by folding due to orogenic forces when the rock is not so heavily loaded as to render it plastic.

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autoclastic schist

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In these chapters, he demonstrates that despite their differences in explicit subject matter and visual style and despite the fact that all of them have been praised on literary grounds, each work is fundamentally autoclastic. I cannot in the space of this review fully do justice to the specificities of Pizzino's counterintuitive interpretations, but his case studies provide a model for how comics criticism ought to produce nuanced and persuasive analyses that attend to the interrelationship among the narrative, verbal, and visual facets of a work.

Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature

(1993) descriptive criteria they correspond to volcanic lithic breccias and autoclastic breccias (Fig.

Mesozoic magmatism in East Uruguay: petrological constraints related to the Sierra San Miguel region

Basaltic lavas with individual thickness of 2 m separated by 2 m thick layers of autoclastic breccias (Fig.