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linear parallelism

A general, nongeneric term for any linear structure in a rock; e.g., flow lines, slickensides, linear arrangements of components in sediments, or axes of folds. Lineation in metamorphic rocks includes mineral streaking and stretching in the direction of transport, crinkles and minute folds parallel to fold axes, and lines of intersection between bedding and cleavage, or of variously oriented cleavages.

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