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What does subparallel mean?

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Adjective
  1. Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly
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The mylonitic foliation in the hanging wall is subparallel to the thrust plane.
A blade is defined as a flake with parallel or subparallel margins that is usually at least twice as long as it is wide.
The foliation is generally parallel or subparallel to the axial plane of the host fold, but it can also converge through the fold core.
Irregular leucosome-leucogranite sheets that are parallel or subparallel to the fabric occur throughout the section.
Recent studies proposed that the Cretan detachment is a shallowly north-dipping normal fault, which formed subparallel to the subjacent subduction thrust in the Early Miocene.
These data define another linear palaeotemperature profile that is subparallel to the present-day geothermal gradient.

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