The word "striations" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe fine lines or grooves that can be seen on a surface. For example, "The striations on the rock wall were evidence of years of erosion."
A lot of striations, which Dr Liu believes are impressions of bundles of muscle fibres, are visible, but the specimen has been distorted by tectonic forces which have sheared the rock containing it over the millions of years since its formation.
And in his woodcuts, such as "The Kiss", he left the woodblock deliberately unprimed so that the knots and striations became part of the finished picture.In 1911, one of Munch's close friends started a cinema in Oslo.
Parts of Lower Saxony and Westphalia, in the west, are as downtrodden as Brandenburg or Mecklenburg, in the east.The striations thus no longer run neatly along the former border between the two Germanies, but between various distinct regions.
In Britain, he is reasonably well known, but as a minority taste, bound within narrow striations of class: his albums are bought to be tucked into boarding school trunks or read after Saturday morning violin lessons.
Striated pebbles are uncommon because the striations are worn away during transport.
These are striations of light and shade, moving and undulating, several centimetres wide.
The faces that comprise a form will be similar in appearance, even though of different shapes and sizes; this similarity may be evident from natural striations, etchings, or growths, or it may be apparent only after etching with acid.
The glass was slowly stirred in the molten state to remove striations and irregularities, and then the whole mass was cooled and broken up into suitable pieces for lens making.
When we are midway through the second circle the Lights re-arrange themselves into huge horizontal striations.
Among those physical structures in organisms that fractionate light into its component colours are ridges, striations, facets, successive layers, and multiple fine, randomly dispersed light-scattering bodies.
If you took a sample of this tundra, you'd find striations of snow, sleet, hail, frozen rain, and more snow.
