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pericline

Meaning of "pericline" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERICLINE

From Greek periklinēs sloping on all sides, from peri- + klinein to lean.

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERICLINE

ˈpɛrɪˌklaɪn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERICLINE

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Pericline is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PERICLINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pericline

Pericline is a form of albite exhibiting elongate prismatic crystal. Pericline twinning is a type of crystal twinning which show fine parallel twin laminae typically found in the alkali feldspars sanidine, microcline and albite. The twinning results from a structural transformation between high temperature and low temperature forms.

Definition of pericline in the English dictionary

The definition of pericline in the dictionary is a white translucent variety of albite in the form of elongated crystals. Other definition of pericline is Also called: dome. a dome-shaped formation of stratified rock with its slopes following the direction of folding.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERICLINE

anticline · cline · decline · disincline · eugeosyncline · geanticline · geosyncline · halocline · helicline · hotline · incline · isocline · Klein · Kline · microcline · monocline · recline · syncline · tetracycline · thermocline

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERICLINE

perichondral · perichondria · perichondrial · perichondrium · perichoresis · periclase · periclastic · Periclean · Pericles · periclinal · periclitate · pericopal · pericope · pericopic · pericrania · pericranial · pericranium · periculous · pericycle · pericyclic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERICLINE

A-line · airline · aline · Caroline · chlortetracycline · deadline · discipline · doxycycline · gasoline · headline · hold the line · in-line · line · offline · on line · online · outline · oxytetracycline · skyline · timeline

Synonyms and antonyms of pericline in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pericline» into 25 languages

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围斜
1,325 millions of speakers
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periclina
570 millions of speakers
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pericline
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pericline
380 millions of speakers
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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Pericline
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Periklin
180 millions of speakers
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ペリクリン
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pericline
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Pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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अडचणी
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periklin
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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pericline
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERICLINE»

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Rock-forming Minerals
(a) Fine cross- hatching through interaction of albite and pericline twins with b* ( albite) coincident with b ( pericline). i.e. 'M' twinning, (b) Chess-board pattern of intersecting lamellae ( < 1 um to 50 um) in maximum microcline (after Fitzgerald ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 2001
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Foundation of Structural Geology
However non-cylindroidal folds, which vary in profile shape, are very common, and we shall discuss several special types. PERICLINFS, DOMFS AND BASINS A pericline is a fold whose amplitude decreases regularly to zero in both directions ...
R G Park, 2013
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Surface and Defect Properties of Solids
Morphologically, the cross-hatching observed by both optical and electron microscopy suggests that it is due to the intersection of lamellae of albite and pericline twins. If it is assumed that the lamellae parallel to [010] were originally pericline ...
M. W. Roberts, J. M. Thomas, 1978
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Analysis of Geological Structures
(b) Slickensides occurring over minor fold hinges. See text for discussion. (c) Idealised orientation of slickensides around a pericline. (Fig. 18.1 2(b)). Slickensides are also commonly found oblique to the fold hinge. This is often the result of the ...
Neville J. Price, John W. Cosgrove, 1990
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Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their ...
Pericline imbricate, scales often spinous ; clinanthus fleshy, chaffy ; corollee all tubular ; style jointed above; pappus stiff. — Leaves alternate, often spinous; stamens and stigma often irritable, contractile. a. Pappus 0. Flowers, centre female ...
Samuel F. Gray, 1821
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A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their ...
Pericline imbricate, scales often spinous; clinanthus fleshy, chaffy; corolla all tubular; style perkline-scales compound, spinous HippophjEstum. 205. Flow, centre hermaphrodite; circumf. neuter; pericline-scales fringed, not spinous Phrygia.
Samuel Frederick Gray, 1821
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An Introduction to Mineral Sciences
(d) Pericline twin Figure 7.61. The distortion of the monoclinic cell (a) to the triclinic cell (b) involves a loss of the mirror plane and the diad axis. The two equivalent orientations of the triclinic cell can form twin domains related by either of the ...
Andrew Putnis, 1992
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Transmission Electron Microscopy of Minerals and Rocks
BF micrograph of microcline showing pericline twins partially converted to fine albite twins. Other twins have been totally converted. Remnant portions of the pericline composition planes are slightly inclined. Beam direction near [O01].
Alex C. McLaren, 2005
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Fault-related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas
The deformation includes mechanical twins (Albite and Pericline laws). kink bands. undulose extinction, and intracrystalline fracturing. The photographs in this plate are oriented perpendicular to the a axis to show both twin laws. 31D.
Arthur W. Snoke, Jan Tullis, Victoria R. Todd, 2014
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Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation of ...
ALBITE AND PERICLINE TWINNING IN MICROCLINE Abstract This chapter reviews the current knowledge and reports our new transmission electron microscopy observations of albite and pericline twinning in microcline. The pericline twin ...
Jun Wu, 2009
REFERENCE
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