talcose
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of talcose
Example Sentences
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Near San Pedro, the talcose gneiss of Buenavista passes into a mica-slate filled with garnets, and containing subordinate beds of serpentine.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
Very near the Hato the talcose slate becomes entirely white, and contains small layers of soft and unctuous graphic ampelite.*
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
On some of them the coal-beds form part of the cliffs along the shore; on others, copper is found in a chlorite and talcose slate.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin
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.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas
The hills, however, are all composed of quartz, gneiss, talcose slate, or mica slate.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various
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