petrofabric
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]petrofabric (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to petrofabrics.
- 1968, Elbridge W. Gresseth, Rolland R. Reid, A Petrofabric Study of Tectonic and Mining-induced Deformations in a Deep Mine, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, page 6:
- It is a basic tenet in petrofabric analysis that the symmetry of rock fabric reflects the symmetry of the deforming movement.
- 1993 January 13, T.S. Nagaraj, Principles of Testing Soils, Rocks and Concrete, Elsevier, page 311:
- Fabric elements such as twin lamellae, kink bands, translation and gliding in some crystals are some of the petrofabric features at micro-level.
- 2014 January 16, Eveline van der Steen, Jeannette Boertien, Noor Mulder-Hymans, Exploring the Narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Papers in Honour of Margreet Steiner, A&C Black, page 98:
- These petrofabric groups were defined by the relative mineral abundance of aplastic inclusions evident in the thin sections, observed using 40×–400× magnification with a polarising microscope.