Exfoliation

The term exfoliation can refer to:

• in mineralogy, to the exfoliation (mineralogy)the property of certain minerals to be divided into foils parallel to the crystall faces;
• in geology, to the exfoliation (geology)to various processes that fracture the rocky massifs;
• in dermatology, to the exfoliation (dermatology)the process to remove dead cells from the epidermis through physical or chemical action;
• in botany, to the exfoliation (botany)removal or loss of leaves from a plant or decayed from the bark of a trunk.