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Fabric

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Fabric:

  1. The fabric of a rock is the total of all the features of texture and structure, ranging from the orientation of individual grains in a sandstone to a regional joint or cleavage system in metamorphic rocks.
  2. In structural geology, fabric refers to all primary and induced, planar and linear features.