petrofabricadj.n.
/ˈpɛtrəʊˌfabrɪk/, U.S. /ˈpɛtroʊˌfæbrɪk/ Geology.
A. adj.
Of or relating to petrofabrics.
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petrofabric1934
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [adjective] > texture
petrofabric1934
1934 B. Sander in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 28 38 Petrofabric analysis is..important for purely petrographic investigations that seek only descriptive characteristics of rocks.
1942 M. P. Billings Struct. Geol. xviii. 341 Many petrofabric diagrams show the attitude of the cleavage rather than the orientation of the optic axes.
1968 B. Bayly Introd. Petrol. xxv. 303 There is..a large field known as petrofabric analysis, in which the orientation of many individual grains is studied.
1988 M. E. Tucker Techniques in Sedimentol. (BNC) 108 Much information gained from petrofabric research can be used to back up field studies and forms an aid to provenance studies.
B. n.
The petrofabric structure or texture of a rock, deposit, etc.; cf. petrofabrics n. 2.
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1959 Science 6 Nov. 1240/2 Continuing arctic glaciological work includes..study of stratigraphy and petrofabric of the ice pack and the heat budget of the Arctic Ocean ice-sea-atmosphere system.
1965 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 263 289 (title) Rotation axis method for detecting conjugate planes in calcite petrofabric.
1999 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 167 255 The petrofabric of the weathered material is often characterized by a mimetic replacement of primary minerals that fully preserve the primary fabric.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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