You can determine because there is texture differences. Also, foliated rocks have visible layers or elongated grains of minerals. Nonfoliated does not have distinct layers or bands.
It is nonfoliated.
Nonfoliated
Foliation is an attribute of certain metamorphic rocks. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock that is not described as foliated or non-foliated.
Foliated
Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock. It is mostly quartz, feldspar, and clay minerals and is not foliated.
It is nonfoliated.
Nonfoliated
Slate is a foliated metamorphic rock.
Rock salt is not foliated.
Foliation is an attribute of certain metamorphic rocks. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock that is not described as foliated or non-foliated.
cleavage, metallic, foliated, nonfoliated, and gravity.
Sedimentary rock can appear foliated, but the nomenclature of foliation is usually reserved for the context of metamorphic rock texture description.
Foliated
foliated
Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock. It is mostly quartz, feldspar, and clay minerals and is not foliated.
NON foliated
foliated