fine-grained

(eg. flower, girl, quote )

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(adj) consisting of fine particles
(adj) dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells

Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot.
Of course, exhaustiveness is a given for Burns, whose fans count on him to cover any subject in the kind of fine-grained detail that's missing in today's cut-to-the-chase media.
Later, the CIA and the Pentagon began a highly classified program designed to produce picturesviewable in real timethat would be fine-grained enough to identify individuals.

"Fun aside, we recognize the sensitivity of location data, so we've built fine-grained privacy controls right into the application," Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google's mobile team, wrote on the company blog. "You not...
on Feb 4, 2009 By: Vic Gundotra Source: eWeek
"Today's decision invites an avalanche of litigation that could mire the federal courts in fine-grained determinations about which state and local regulations" survive, he wrote.
on Jul 1, 2010 By: John Paul Stevens Source: DesMoinesRegister.com