exfoliation jointの例文
- These fractures are known as exfoliation joints, or sheet fractures, and form in onionlike patterns that are parallel to the land surface.
- "' Exfoliation joints "'are sets of flat-lying, curved, and large joints that are restricted to massively exposed rock faces in an deeply eroded landscape.
- Over thousands, if not millions, of years these layers have been weathered out ( " exfoliation joints " ), giving the bodies the appearance of rosebuds in bloom.
- With consideration of the field evidence and observations of occurrence, fracture mode, and secondary forms, high surface-parallel compressive stresses and extensional fracturing ( axial cleavage ) seems to be the most plausible theory explaining the formation of exfoliation joints.