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Both foliation and lineations features of deformation in rocks. Lineations however are indicatives of the presence of foliation but lineation is a planar stucture measured in therms of dip and strike, meanwhile lieations are measured in terms of plunge and direction. The dip is the angle a foliation makes with the horizontal, it is a measure of the inclination of the foliation. Strike however measured right angled to the dip, it is a measure of the general trend of the surface fo the foliation (season why leation cannot be measured in terms of strike, because it is simply a lineation and thus has no surface trend). The plunge also is the angle a lineation makes with the horizontal. It is similar to dip in that it also a measure of inclination but different but unlike dip it tells us nothing about the direction of the lineation. This is why direction comes as a supplementary measure of lineation.

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I think there is some stuff mixed up in the above answer. Foliations are planes, Lineations are lines.

Foliations have Strike and Dip

Lineations have Trend and Plunge

Foliations form as a result of compression or shearing and form perpendicular to resulting compression (planes will be closer to the direction of extension - imagine squeezing a ball of soft material and see which way it stretches). Some of the most common foliations are in folds, at the axial hinge of a fold, the foliation tends to be the same as the axial plane, but moving away from the centre of the fold the foliations tend to lay away from the plane - this depends on competency of rock holding the folds. In the field it can be easy to confuse bedding planes with foliations - you may have to question what it is that distinguishes the layers to decide if it's a bed or foliation. Often a foliation plane has no distinguishing features between layers (until it starts developing schistosity and banding)

There are many types of lineations: Striations, stretching lineations, intersection linetions. In the field they are a line on a rock, not a plane.

Stretching lineations (usually what you are looking for) are basically the result of a crystal (or set of crystals) being stretched in a ductile environment (so basically you've got a blob of material that's been stretched out)

Intersection Lineations: The line that is produced where bedding planes (sedimentary material) intersect with foliation planes. At the axial hinge of fold the foliations and beds are usually perpendicular (90 degrees) to each other.

Striations: Usually a brittle feature, is basically scratch marks of one rock moving on another, can be formed by glaciers or sometimes in faults. Displays a sense of movement.

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