Glossary:Slickenside

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Slickenside
Smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a ped, fissure or fault produced when one surface slides over another. The polished aggregate sufaces may be mistaken for clay coatings but these can be differentiated by the presence of grooves and scratches in the polished surface of slickensides.

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