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- Foliation_(geology) abstract "Foliation in geology refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks. Each layer may be as thin as a sheet of paper, or over a meter in thickness. The word comes from the Latin folium, meaning "leaf", and refers to the sheet-like planar structure. It is caused by shearing forces (pressures pushing different sections of the rock in different directions), or differential pressure (higher pressure from one direction than in others). The layers form parallel to the direction of the shear, or perpendicular to the direction of higher pressure. Nonfoliated metamorphic rocks are typically formed in the absence of significant differential pressure or sheer. Foliation is common in rocks affected by the regional metamorphic compression typical of areas of mountain belt formation (orogenic belts). More technically, foliation is any penetrative planar fabric present in metamorphic rocks. Rocks exhibiting foliation include the standard sequence formed by the prograde metamorphism of mudrocks; slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss. The slatey cleavage typical of slate is due to the preferred orientation of microscopic phyllosilicate crystals. In gneiss the foliation is more typically represented by compositional banding due to segregation of mineral phases. Foliated rock is also known as S-tectonite in sheared rock masses. Examples include the bands in gneiss (gneissic banding), a preferred orientation of planar large mica flakes in schist (Schistocity), the preferred orientation of small mica flakes in phyllite (with its planes having a silky sheen, called phylitic luster - the Greek word, phyllon, also means "leaf"), the extremely fine grained preferred orientation of clay flakes in slate (called "slaty cleavage"), and the layers of flattened, smeared, pancake-like clasts in metaconglomerate.".
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Agglomerate.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Metamorphic_petrology.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Metamorphic_rocks.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Structural_geology.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Clastic_rock.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Clasts.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Clay_mineral.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Clay_minerals.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Cleavage_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Convection.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Crenulation.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Crystal.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Cumulate_rock.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Diagenesis.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Differential_pressure.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Discontinuity_(Geotechnical_engineering).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Discontinuity_(geotechnical_engineering).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Eutaxitic.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Fabric_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Fault_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Felsic.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Fissility_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Fold_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Fold_plunge.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Foundation_(engineering).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Geotechnical_engineering.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Gneiss.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Gneissic_banding.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Granite.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Igneous_rock.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Intersection_lineation.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Intrusion.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Lath.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink List_of_rock_textures.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink List_of_rock_types.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Magma_chamber.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Metaconglomerate.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Metamorphic_rock.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Metamorphism.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Mica.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Mineral.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Mudrock.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Nucleation.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Orogeny.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Phyllite.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Phyllosilicate.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Plagioclase.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Porphyroblast.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Porphyroblasts.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Protolith.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Pyroclastic.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Pyroclastic_rock.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Retrograde_metamorphism.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Right_angle.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Rock_microstructure.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Schist.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Schistocity.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Shear_(geology).
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Shear_force.
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- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Silicate_minerals.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Slate.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Slaty_cleavage.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Slope_stability_analysis.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Tectonite.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Thrust_fault.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Tuff.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Tunnel.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Ultramafic.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Ultramafic_rock.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Viscosity.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink Viscous.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLink File:Gneiss.jpg.
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bedding fissile".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bedding fissility".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Foliated".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Foliation (geology)".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Foliation".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Geological foliation".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "banding".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "foliated stone".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "foliated".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "foliation planes".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "foliation".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "foliations".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "non-foliated".
- Foliation_(geology) wikiPageWikiLinkText "slated".
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