Foliated

It is rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as what mineralogists describe as foliated masses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But thefe precious flones» which are found in a kind of foliated granit, are the fame coarfe kind that are generally found in fimilar rocks. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards. ❋ Melik Kaylan (2011)

It was here that in 1907 Proust studied the facade's foliated tracery, illuminated by Agostinelli's headlamps. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Manuscripts are usually foliated, where each leaf is give a number. ❋ Dafydd (2008)

As far as I can discern, these are foliated or (roughly speaking) “wrapped” objects akin to the “reel” referred to above; but the Wikipedia article on them is rather terse and formal and not very illuminating. ❋ Sean (2008)

Grogan Fault, along which much of the main channel of Redwood Creek flows, is a major structural feature within the park, separating well foliated meta-sedimentary schists and meta-basalts on the south-west of Redwood Creek from the unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan to the north-east. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Think of spacetime as a series of spatial (three dimensional spaces) foliated like pages in a book within spacetime. ❋ Julianne (2008)

Schist is a medium - to coarse-grained foliated rock. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Figure 1: The mineral grains in rocks subjected to extreme pressure often rearrange themselves in a parallel fashion, creating a foliated texture (Image A - before metamorphism; Image B - after metamorphism). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet on holding the verso against a lit rush this new book of Morses responded most remarkably to the silent query of our worlds oldest light and its recto let out the piquant fact that it was but pierced butnot punctured in the university sense of the term by numerous stabs and foliated gashes made by a pronged instrument. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

That he too could hide in the shadows cast by densely foliated overhanging limbs should have offered him reassurance, but instead the foreboding sense of the unknown haunted him; if his enemy was out there, would that they would reveal themselves and be done with it. ❋ Heather Jarman (2006)

The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and salads, the sharp and the sweet, each in its order; their potatoes, thin as coins but not so hard; their sprouts, foliated as rosebuds but more succulent. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At that date the weakened portions of the original mediaeval structure were pulled down and cleared away, old jambs being carried off for rick-staddles, and the foliated timbers of the hall roof making themselves useful as fancy chairs in the summer-houses of rising inns. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

He later recalled that he was coatless, and wearing a slouch hat and blue woolen shirt; his pantaloons were stuffed into his boots, and he sported a beard that foliated halfway down to his waist. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)