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schistose
[ shis-tohs ]
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- schis·tos·i·ty [shi-, stos, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of schistose1
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Example Sentences
A marked schistosity accompanies this alteration, and most of the schistose planes are coated with silvery muscovite.
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The average dip of the schistose planes is about 60°; from this they vary up to 90° and down to 20°.
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In regions where no sediments occur, the relation of the schistose planes to the folds can not be discovered.
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They were thickly covered with eucalypti and brush, and, though based upon sandstone, were themselves of a schistose formation.
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Spilosite, spil′o-sīt, n. a greenish schistose rock spotted with chlorite, occurring in the Harz—the German Fleckenschiefer.
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