gneissic
- a word derived from gneiss.
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Thin accumulations of light-colored rock layers can occur in a darker rock that is parallel to each other or even cut across the gneissic foliation.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
On the map the Superior Province, rocks are mostly pink, representing granitic and gneissic rocks, with strips and blotches of green, representing metamorphosed sea-floor basalt and sediments, also known as greenstone belts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The pre-Cambrian is represented by the gneissic rocks at the south end of the Malvern Hills and by grits at Huntley.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Below the Falls, the river, turning to the southeast, pursues its maddened career for twenty-five miles shut in by vertical cliffs of gneissic rock, which rises in places to a height of four hundred feet.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The development of the schistose or gneissic structure is accompanied by the recrystallization of the rock materials, producing new minerals of a platy or columnar type adapted to this parallel arrangement.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
