amphibolite
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The lowest pressure conditions produce hornfels facies, while higher pressure creates greenschist, amphibolite, or granulite facies.
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The metamorphic rock, amphibolite, is primarily composed of amphibole minerals.
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Similarly, a gneiss that originated as basalt and is dominated by amphibole, is an amphibole gneiss or, more accurately, an amphibolite.
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They will find a Something there, In a cavern where no sound is, In a room of milky marble Walled with black amphibolite Over-scored with faded words And stained with time!
From Open Water by Arthur Stringer
Specimens of the palæozoic group are found in the pebbles of the Mukawa River and valley, like amphibolite, limestone, phyllite, sandstone, and clay-slate, besides variegated quartzite of greenish and red layers.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by A. H. Savage Landor
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