foliation

Examples from literature

Arsenic, in the metallic state, is of a whitish-grey color, high lustre, and is crystalline, of a foliated structure, and is so brittle that it can be pulverized. 
The strike of large masses of foliated gneiss is parallel with the major axis of the Lake, and all are tilted on edge. 
Where masses of fissile and foliated rocks alternate together, the cleavage and foliation, in all cases which I have seen, are parallel. 

foliated | American Dictionary

foliated
adjective
us/ˈfoʊ·liˌeɪ·t̬əd/
earth science
describes rocks consisting of thin layers that can be separated

foliation

noun[ U ] earth scienceus/ˌfoʊ·liˈeɪ·ʃən/

Examples of foliated

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Cycles for the dynamical study of foliated manifolds and complex manifolds.
Section 3 is devoted to harmonic currents and foliated cycles.
Eleven folio-size leaves folded vertically and foliated 1-22.
The periodic orbits of these systems are isolated, and do not form parts of foliated structures.
The main type, interlayered within the metabasites, crops out in pink, massive or slightly foliated, decimetre- to decametre-thick lenses and layers.
The family of foliated fibers of is an equisingular unfolding.
The last part of this subsection includes some considerations on measures invariant under the horocycle foliated flow.
An interesting problem is how leaves of a given growth type on some compact foliated manifold are obtained.
We construct (by suspension) a compact foliated manifold with a leaf of a given growth type.
The latter action is realanalytic and ergodic with respect to the smooth measure class, so it induces an ergodic real-analytic foliated bundle.
However, near the southern margin of the pluton, there are high temperature shear zones, several metres thick, where the granitoid is foliated and lineated.
Note the shar p boundaries and the strongly foliated interior.
They are medium-grained, pink/grey, sub-granoblastic to foliated and the rare banding (millimetre- to centimetrescale) in the massive layers is usually poorly defined.
The dominant variety is dark green/black, medium-grained and strongly foliated (rarely banded) and occurs as sheets throughout the complex.
Layers of fine-grained materials in mylonitic, foliated granulites are derived from coarser parent granulite rock by means of intercrystalline deformation and recystallization.
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