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Foliation logo #10101) Development 2) French word used in English 3) Growing 4) Growth 5) Leafing 6) Maturation 7) Metamorphic rock 8) Ontogenesis 9) Ontogeny 10) The process of forming leaves 11) The state of being in leaf
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Foliation logo #10101) Leafing
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foliation logo #10444
  1. the process of forming leaves
  2. the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
  3. (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament

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Foliation logo #22012parallel alignment of textural and structural features of a rock.
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Foliation logo #21002• (n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud. • (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. • (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as...
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foliation logo #21003(from the article `Novikov, Sergey Petrovich`) Novikov was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice, France, in 1970. One of his most impressive ...
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foliation logo #21003planar arrangement of structural or textural features in any rock type, but particularly that resulting from the alignment of constituent mineral ... [3 related articles]
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foliation logo #21160A decoration of a manifold in which the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel. More technically, the foliated manifold is locally homeomorphic to a vector space decorated by co-sets of a subspace.
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foliation logo #209731. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. ... 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispoed within the bud. ' The . . . Foliation must be in relation to the stem.' (De Quincey) ... 3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. ... 4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making ...
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Foliation logo #22192The layered or banded structure of rock in which the mineral grains became re-aligned at right angles to a directional force that existed during metamorphism.
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foliation logo #22291 The arrangement of a set of minerals in parallel, sheet-like layers that lie perpendicular to the flattened plane of a rock. Occurs in metamorphic rocks on which directed pressure has been exerted.
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Foliation logo #22392The planar or layered characteristics of metamorphic rocks that are evidence of the pressures and/or
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Foliation logo #20972Fo'li·a'tion noun [ Confer French foliation .] 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. 2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo...ed within the bud. « The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem.» De Quincey. 3. Th...
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Foliation logo #22331A planar feature in metamorphic rocks, produced by the secondary growth of minerals. Three major types are recognized: slaty cleavage, schistosity, and gneissic layering.
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Foliation logo #21028Process where once randomly distributed platy minerals in a rock become reoriented, because of metamorphism, in a parallel manner.
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Foliation logo #21217In geology, the term foliation refers to the property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slatey structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transv...
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Foliation logo #21217In architecture foliation describes the enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc. and also, one of the ornaments.
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foliation logo #23000 Any planar set of minerals or banding of mineral concentrations including cleavage, found in a metamorphic rock.
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Foliation logo #22189The layered or banded structure of rock in which the mineral grains became re-aligned at right angles to a directional force that existed during metamorphism.
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foliation logo #10133layering in glacier ice that has distinctive crystal sizes and/or bubbles; foliation is usually caused by stress and deformation that a glacier experiences as it flows over complex terrain, but can also originate as a sedimentary feature.
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foliation logo #20974 noun (botany) the process of forming leaves
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foliation logo #20974foliage noun (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
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foliation logo #22327A planar structure that develops in metamorphic rocks as a result of directed pressure.
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foliation logo #21199the act or process of putting forth leaves. · the state of being in leaf. · · the arrangement of leaves within a bud. · the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
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foliation logo #23665 (botany) the process of forming leaves
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