foliation in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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foliation [Brit ˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n, Am ˌfoʊliˈeɪʃən] N

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To qualify for the name a rock must also exhibit schistosity or some foliation or layering.
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Contortion or crumbling of the foliation is by no means uncommon; splitting faces are undulose or puckered.
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They characteristically lie with their longest dimension at a small angle to the mylonitic foliation.
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Rocks exhibiting foliation include the standard sequence formed by the prograde metamorphism of mudrocks; slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss.
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Variation from the ideal results from stress produced foliation during crystallization resulting in schistose textures.
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Within shear zones with pronounced displacements a shear foliation may form at a shallow angle to the gross plane of the shear zone.
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Thermal metamorphism in the aureole of a granite is also unlikely to result in growth of mica in a foliation, although growth of new minerals may overprint existing foliation(s).
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In connection with foliation theory, a subbundle of the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold may be called a distribution (of tangent vectors).
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Shear zones accommodate compressive stress by movement on foliation planes.
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A subbundle may also be defined to arise from a foliation of a manifold.
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