lineation
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Linear crystals, such as hornblende, tourmaline, or stretched quartz grains, can be arranged as part of a foliation, a lineation, or foliation/lineation together.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
When minerals lie on a plane AND point in a common direction; this is both foliation and lineation.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Crooked and jagged, the lineation is a lifetime on display — the joy, sadness, euphoria and thrill of every breath.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2014
Some of the material swings close to the prosaic, yet Motion's deft lineation and deletions work double-time to preserve the true sense of natural speech.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
It must be a sketch or lineation of something—but of what? or of what kind of thing?
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
