schistous
- a variation of schistose.
Example Sentences
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Here Simon Ford had lived with his family ten years, in a subterranean dwelling, hollowed out in the schistous mass, where formerly stood the powerful engines which worked the mechanical traction of the Dochart pit.
From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Verne, Jules
From Anapa to Gagra, along the shores of the Black Sea, we observe a secondary chain composed of schistous mountains, seldom exceeding 1000 yards in height.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
The schistous pyrites were principally composed of carbon, of silica, of alumina, and sulphuret of iron,—these were in excess,—it was necessary to separate the sulphuret and change it into sulphate by the quickest means.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
This was Ambialet, so called from the extraordinary loop which the Tarn forms here in consequence of the mass of schistous rock which obstructs its direct channel.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison
And these prodigious slabs of gneiss now lay amidst schistous marl and calcareous rock.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison
