gneissoid
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gneissoid
Example Sentences
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Outcrops of a gneissoid schist on the valley sides and rapids in the stream bear witness to the youthfulness of this portion of the river channel.
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It produced effects varying from granite with a rude gneissoid appearance, through a banded fine gneiss, into a fine quartz schist or slate.
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These slaty and gneissoid planes are seen to be parallel to the direction and attitude of the sediments, wherever they are near enough for comparison.
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At this distance, rapids commence, and the bed of the river exhibited greenstone and gneissoid boulders.
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The bed rock was a talcose schist near to Ocotal, but higher up the river it changed to gneissoid and quartz rocks, the latter in hard and massive beds.
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