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Striation

Striation | Stria | Striations

Striation meaning

One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals. | One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape. | The action of marking with a stria.

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Example sentences (1)

Glacial striation and the presence of chalk and flint erratics that originated from the bed of the North Sea demonstrate the influence of ice action on the geomorphology of the islands.