striae
(parallel ridges)
Striae (singular: stria) are parallel ridges on something.
The term is regularly used in astrophysics to describe observed
phenomena comet tails. The term has also been used regarding
gas clouds, and also for a protoplanetary disks phenomena
occurring in planet formation in the gravitational instability model.
(observation,comets,clouds)
Further reading:
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=stria
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016Icar..264..160S/abstract
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stria
https://dictionary.obspm.fr/index.php?showAll=1&formSearchTextfield=stria
Referenced by page:
planet formation
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