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Home Dictionary Name: gneissGneiss
A crystalline rock consisting like granite of quartz feldspar and mica but having these materials especially the mica arranged in planes so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss...
Gneissoid
Resembling gneiss having some of the characteristics of gneiss applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss or mica slate and gneiss...
Gneissic
Relating to or resembling gneiss consisting of gneiss...
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
A crystalline granular rock consisting 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 Opposed to epigene...
Protogine
A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral...
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