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The change is in the alignment of the clay minerals and parallel alignment of micaceous minerals, from the stress of compressional forces. The water content of the shale is reduced, increasing the rock's specific gravity, and the alignment of the minerals results in a slaty cleavage.
Foliation
Some metamorphic rocks display foliation, a distict banding due to the alignment of like minerals due to high pressures and temperatures. Igneous rocks , especially those that form below the ground from cooled magma are more homogenous in appearance because of the interlocking crystalline structure among the composite minerals.
In geology, foliation refers to the process of being split into thin sheets. It is related to stress because the stress or pressure determines how the metamorphic minerals will be split.
Foliation.
parallel alignment of minerals that have been subjected to stress
It is called foliation.
It is called foliation.
This is called 'Foliation'.I know this is a short and probably unreliable answer, but I hope it helped a bit.
The change is in the alignment of the clay minerals and parallel alignment of micaceous minerals, from the stress of compressional forces. The water content of the shale is reduced, increasing the rock's specific gravity, and the alignment of the minerals results in a slaty cleavage.
Foliation
Elements subjected to loading or subjected to force.
Slaty foliation- Parallel foliation of fine-grained platy minerals in a direction perpendicular to the direction of maximum stress (-Anonymous)
Slaty foliation, is a type of parallel foliation consisting of fine-grained platy minerals. The direction of foliation is usually perpendicular to the direction of maximum stress.
When emplaced granite is subjected to pressures and temperatures from mountain building processes due to tectonic plate movements, the component minerals are essentially realigned perpendicularly to the direction of the stress.
Desmosomes
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