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Definition of Fissility
1. n. Quality of being fissile.
Definition of Fissility
1. Noun. Quality of being fissile. ¹
2. Noun. (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fissility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissility
Literary usage of Fissility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"FRACTURE CLEAVAGE AND fissility Fracture cleavage may be defined as a ... It may
be desirable to retain the term fissility as strictly defined by Van Hise ..."
2. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William North Rice, Herbert Ernest Gregory (1908)
"fissility.— The surfaces of parting which constitute the cleavage planes in a
rock may be present without being apparent to the eye. ..."
3. Stone; an Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"The structure is thus a product of the forces producing cleavage and those
producing fissility working successively under different conditions. ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection by Lazarus Fletcher (1895)
"fissility along a plane is due to the cohesion of the rock at points lying in
the plane ... One kind of fissility is termed lamination, another cleavage. ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1898)
"Occasionally the two sets of fissility or cleavage are found in the same locality
... The fissility traverses the rock irrespective of the direction of the ..."
6. Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of Useful Minerals by Thomas Crook (1921)
"It is this secondary fissility, arising from pressure due to earth movement, ...
The relation of the plane of fissility in a slate to the plane of bedding ..."
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