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Gneiss
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Gneissoid
Resembling gneiss having some of the characteristics of gneiss applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss
Gneissic
Relating to or resembling gneiss consisting of gneiss
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Gneissose
Having the structure of gneiss
Graduate
To pass by degrees to change gradually to shade off as sandstone which graduates into gneiss carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz
Granite
of quartz feldspar and mica and usually of a whitish grayish or flesh red color It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure
Granitoid
Resembling granite in granular appearance as granitoid gneiss a granitoid pavement
Hypogene
Formed or crystallized at depths beneath the earths surface said of granite gneiss and other rocks whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks
Protogine
A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral
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