Crossword-Solution: FOLIATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foliation | n. | The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. |
| Foliation | n. | The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud. |
| Foliation | n. | The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. |
| Foliation | n. | The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. |
| Foliation | n. | The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. |
| Foliation | 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 mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “FOLIATION”
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| leaf-like architectural ornament | 1 answer |
| process of producing leaves | 1 answer |
| the work of coating glass with metal foil | 1 answer |
| leafage | 6 answers |
| frondescence | 7 answers |
| foliage | 19 answers |
| Leaves | 39 answers |
| Vegetation | 46 answers |
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Sentences with FOLIATION (5)
Darwin, almost as soon as he landed, was struck by the circumstance that the direction, as shown by his compass, of the prominent features of these great crystalline rock-masses--their cleavage, master-joints, foliation and pegmatite veins--was the same as the orientation described by Humboldt (whose works he had so carefully studied) on the west of the same great continent.
The remaining three chapters of the book dealt with the metamorphic and plutonic rocks, and in them Darwin announced his important conclusions concerning the relations of cleavage and foliation, and on the close analogy of the latter structure with the banding found in rock-masses of igneous origin.
The following eight letters were written at a time when the subjects of cleavage and foliation were already occupying the minds of several geologists, including Sharpe, Sorby, Rogers, Haughton, Phillips, and Tyndall.
His most important contribution to the question was in establishing the fact that foliation is often a part of the same process as cleavage, and is in nowise necessarily connected with planes of stratification.
All that I say is that when slate and the metamorphic schists occur in the same neighbourhood, the cleavage and foliation are uniform: of this I have seen many cases, but I have never observed slate overlying mica-slate.