micaceous

How to use micaceous in a sentence

• Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] | Phillip Parker King

• Among the loose stones at the foot of the portage, I picked up a specimen of micaceous oxide of iron.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• Thus, highly micaceous sandstones, as they are traced into a metamorphic region, are seen to pass gradually into mica-schist.

  Geology | James Geikie

• An important character is the perfect micaceous cleavage parallel to the basal plane, on which plane the lustre is pearly.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 | Various

• The pepitas occur in different forms, often adhering to micaceous specular iron.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure