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Foliated
Foliated meaning
Having a structure of thin layers. | Decorated with foliage. | Having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.
Synonyms of Foliated
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This shear zone is developed on the boundary of two major lithologies: massive, very competent, poorly foliated dark green meta-volcanic at hanging wall versus well foliated, less competent, micaceous meta-sediments at footwall.
Textures are separated into foliated and non-foliated categories.
Grenada is more rugged and densely foliated than its outlying possessions, but other geographical conditions are more similar.
It is often foliated (composed of layers of sheet-like planar structures).
It occurs as foliated to fibrous masses, and in an exceptionally rare crystal form.
Non-foliated rock does not have planar patterns of strain.
Rocks that were subjected to uniform pressure from all sides, or those that lack minerals with distinctive growth habits, will not be foliated.
This results in a banded, or foliated rock, with the bands showing the colors of the minerals that formed them.