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The Pernambuco Shear Zone (PSZ) is a 700 km long branch of one of the largest and best-exposed Precambrian strike-slip shear zone systems in the world. The shear zones are part of the eroded record of a large-scale collision zone. Foliation and lineation orientations along the shear zone indicate that local deformation perturbations have produced variable fabric orientations, with up to 40° change...