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    Foliation refers to any parallel alignment of planar fabric elements in rock, including primary flow banding and cleavage, as well as secondary cleavages and mylonitic foliation formed by metamorphism. Lineation describes a parallel alignment of elongate linear fabric elements in a rock. Both foliation and lineation provide information about strain and deformation recorded in rocks. Different types of foliation and lineation form depending on the amount of matrix material present and features like stretched pebbles or mineral rods that indicate the orientation of strain.

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    Foliation refers to any parallel alignment of planar fabric elements in rock, including primary flow banding and cleavage, as well as secondary cleavages and mylonitic foliation formed by metamorphism. Lineation describes a parallel alignment of elongate linear fabric elements in a rock. Both foliation and lineation provide information about strain and deformation recorded in rocks. Different types of foliation and lineation form depending on the amount of matrix material present and features like stretched pebbles or mineral rods that indicate the orientation of strain.

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    STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY Lecture 31 Lineation & Foliation

    (foliation)

    Foliation - any mesoscopically penetrative parallel alignment of planar fabric elements in rock. Primary foliations: flow banding in rhyolite and axial planar cleavage in slump folds Secondary foliations: cleavages and mylonitic foliation Metamorphic foliations: slaty cleavage, schistosity, gneissic structure Mylonite foliations: Protomylonite < 50% matrix Mylonite - 50% to 90% matrix Ultramylonite - > 90% matrix Lineation - parallel alignment of elongate linear fabric elements in a rock body. Mineral lineation Stretched-Pebble conglomerate Rodding Mullion Pencil Structure Boudin

    Tectonites: S-tectonite L- tectonite

    LS - tectonite

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