Striation

Striations means a series of ridges, furrows or linear marks, and is used in several ways:

• Glacial striation
• Striation (fatigue), in material
• Striation (geology), a striation as a result of a geological fault
• Striation Valley, in Antarctica
• In hyperbolic geometry, a striation is a reflection across two parallel mirrors.
• In anatomy, striated muscle
• In acoustic phonetics, striations are vertical bands on a spectrogram associated with pulses of the vocal folds when producing voiced periodic sounds.
• Striations can be found in certain glasses. These have been caused by turbulent flow during teeming (pouring) of the glass.
• Striations can be observed in clouds. See Barber's pole.
• Ballistic fingerprinting

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