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Example sentences for "foliation"

Lexicographically close words:
foliage; foliaged; foliar; foliate; foliated; foliations; folie; foliis; folio; folios
  1. Defn: An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

  2. Defn: An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

  3. Between the asterisk in my text (supra) and the one following "ford" before the foliation mark f.

  4. The foliation marked in the margin of this book is that of the Haidarabad Codex and of its facsimile, published in 1905 by the Gibb Memorial Trust.

  5. The original foliation seems to have been cut away, and the intermediate mullions extended to the points of the two lights.

  6. It amounts to this, therefore, that in the plains the long continued period of foliation allows insects, frost, winds, etc.

  7. Some are of wood, others of stone; the former are mostly polygonal, with the panels enriched with foliation or tracery.

  8. 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.

  9. I quite subscribe to this view, and should have been sorry to have been so utterly wrong, as I should have been if foliation was identical with stratification.

  10. 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.

  11. I must just send one line to thank you for your note, and to say how heartily glad I am that you stick to the cleavage and foliation question.

  12. I can only thus understand the relation which exists between the distorted foliation (not appearing due to injection) and the presence of such great veins.

  13. On the Arrangement of the Foliation and Cleavage of the Rocks of the North of Scotland.

  14. That the foliation and cleavage are parts of curves I am quite prepared, from what I have seen, to believe; but the simplicity and grandeur of Sharpe's curves rather stagger me.

  15. That the planes of foliation of the crystalline schists in Norway accord very generally with those of original stratification is a conclusion long since espoused by Keilhau.

  16. Whether the Foliation of the crystalline Schists be usually parallel with the original Planes of Stratification.

  17. Hence we must expect to be frequently baffled when we attempt to decide whether the foliation does or does not accord with that arrangement which gravitation, combined with current-action, imparted to a deposit from water.

  18. Foliation may be used for those alternating layers or plates of different mineralogical nature of which gneiss and other metamorphic schists are composed.

  19. Forbes has pointed out a striking case where the foliation is identical with the lines of stratification in rocks well seen near Crianlorich on the road to Tyndrum, about eight miles from Inverarnon, in Perthshire.

  20. And I would rather, myself, have a plain ridged Gothic vault, with all its rough stones visible, to keep the sleet and wind out of a cathedral aisle, than all the fanning and pendanting and foliation that ever bewildered Tudor weight.

  21. In certain spots large quartz veins were numerous, and near them, the cleavage, as was the case with the foliation of the schists in the Chonos Archipelago, became extremely tortuous.

  22. Looking to the basal, metamorphic, and plutonic rocks of the continent, the areas formed of them are likewise vast; and their planes of cleavage and foliation strike over surprisingly great spaces in uniform directions.

  23. At Los Arenales, low down on the eastern flank, the mica-slate is traversed by several closely adjoining, broad dikes, parallel to each other and to the foliation of the schist.

  24. With respect to both foliation and cleavage becoming tortuous where quartz-veins abound, I have seen instances near Monte Video, at Concepcion, and in the Chonos Islands.

  25. Relation of cleavage and foliation to the lines of tension during metamorphosis.

  26. Epidote likewise occurs in the gneiss in thin layers, parallel to the foliation of the mass.

  27. I do not think that the element of foliation has been enough insisted upon in its intimate relations with the power of Gothic work.

  28. They may be metamorphosed sediments (granulites and schists) into which tongues and thin veins of granitic character have been intruded, following the more or less parallel foliation planes already present in the country rock.

  29. Afterwards, by comparing together the observations of the several years, it will not be difficult to determine from the foliation of the trees, if not certainly, at least probably, the time when annual plants ought to be sown.

  30. Mr. Stillingfleet is the only person that has made correct observations upon the foliation of the trees and shrubs of this kingdom.

  31. On the banks I observed much granite, with large mica crystals, hornstone, tourmaline, and stratified quartz, with granite veins parallel to the foliation or lamination.

  32. The omission of the cross-hatched background and the more natural rendering of the foliation (page 386) announce the approach to the Decorated period.

  33. The foliation of the ornament is now everywhere naturalistic.

  34. An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

  35. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

  36. The foliation of German work was generally crisp and full of convolutions in its minor features, though the leading lines were boldly conceived.

  37. The variety and beauty of design and colour in encaustic tiles adopted by mediƦvalists, may be slightly illustrated by the quaint specimen of foliation copied in Fig.

  38. An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.

  39. Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.

  40. There is indeed every reason to believe that such gneisses were probably originally true granites, and that their foliation and recrystallization have been the result of metamorphism.

  41. In many places gneisses that possess a thoroughly typical foliation have been found to pierce ancient sedimentary formations as intrusive bosses and veins.

  42. To contrast decorated foliation and ornament with the earlier work, is like comparing the opening flower with the bud.

  43. After the Early English comes the Decorated period, in which the mouldings and foliation become fuller, broader, and more ornate.

  44. The text is in double columns, with square initials, and the page is lightened by open foliation branching out upon the margin from the straight spiney border strips, which on the inner side terminate in a dragon.


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    Other words:
    accounting; census; counting; drapery; enumeration; foliation; measurement; numbering; quantification; stratification; telling; umbrage