schistose
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Gran′ūlīte, a schistose but sometimes massive aggregate of quartz and orthoclase with garnets.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It seems that in Australia many of the best mineral veins are capped with iron, and run through schistose rocks traversed by dioritic dykes.
From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Govett, Ernest
The inner zone of crystalline and schistose rocks which forms the main chain of the Alps, is absent in the Apennines except towards the southern end.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Clinkstone or phonolite is a greenish-gray, compact, felspathic rock, somewhat slaty or schistose, and weathers with a white crust.
From Geology by Geikie, James
Por′phyroid, a crystalline and schistose rock containing porphyritic crystals of feldspar.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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