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Slickensides
Slickensides Slick"en*sides`, n. 1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another. 2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.

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- In geology, a slickenside is a smoothly polished surface caused by frictional movement between rocks along a fault. This surface is typically striated...
- quartz, tourmaline, chalcocite and sphalerite. Slickenside "Glad You Asked: Glacial Striations and Slickensides". Utah Geological Survey. Retrieved 2023-12-24...
- projection. If a fault has lineations formed by movement on the plane, e.g.; slickensides, this is recorded as a lineation, with a rake, and annotated as to the...
- from Saint-Marcel, Valle d'Aosta, Italy Amphibole epidote schist with slickensides from Benguet, Philippines, showing epidote lens In geotechnical engineering...
- fault plane is a planar feature that may contain linear features such as slickensides. These orientations of lines and planes at various scales can be plotted...
- contact between two formations. These fault surfaces can be polished into slickensided surfaces which depict striations in the direction of the fault movement...
- vegetation grew in a shape of a crest. He believed the Moonshaft to be a slickenside – two enormous blocks of sandstone moved in opposite directions which...
- Crenulation Fissility Oblique foliation Pressure solution Rock microstructure Slickenside Stylolite Tectonic phase Tectonite Folding Anticline Chevron Detachment...
- be difficult to distinguish from other geological formations such as slickensides. Geologists have various theories of what causes shatter cones to form...
- Crenulation Fissility Oblique foliation Pressure solution Rock microstructure Slickenside Stylolite Tectonic phase Tectonite Folding Anticline Chevron Detachment...