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What does foliated mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology, of a rock) Having a structure of thin layers
  2. (architecture) Decorated with foliage
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The sample of Omonville granodiorite was collected from the foliated felsic phase of the intrusion at Pointe Jardeheu.
These secondary shear bands form only in strongly foliated rocks and deform fabrics developed earlier in the same deformation event.
We argue that, on the basis of their relative timing of emplacement, the foliated intrusions may be placed into two broad suites.
This is essentially a dark, fine grained unit, dominated by black, graphitic, foliated claystones and siltstones.
The carbonates in the footwall are strongly foliated and sheared parallel to the thrust.
The newly discovered manuscript had in fact been foliated and the figures are omitted from the plates.

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