We study local G-shtukas with level structure over a base scheme whose Newton
polygons are constant on the base. We show that after a finite base change and
after passing to an \'etale covering, such a local G-shtuka is isogenous to a
completely slope divisible one, generalizing corresponding results for
p-divisible groups by Oort and Zink. As an application we establish a product
structure up to finite morphism on the closed Newton stratum of the universal
deformation of a local G-shtuka, similarly to Oort's foliations for p-divisible
groups and abelian varieties.
Pure t-motives were introduced by G. Anderson as higher dimensional
generalizations of Drinfeld modules, and as the appropriate analogs of abelian
varieties in the arithmetic of function fields. In order to construct moduli
spaces for pure t-motives the second author has previously introduced the
concept of abelian \tau-sheaf. In this article we clarify the relation between
pure t-motives and abelian \tau-sheaves. We obtain an equivalence of the
respective quasi-isogeny categories.