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Gneiss

place of the mica and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss Similar varieties of related rocks are also

Resembling gneiss having some of the characteristics of gneiss applied to rocks

Relating to or resembling gneiss consisting of gneiss

Having the structure of gneiss

change gradually to shade off as sandstone which graduates into gneiss carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz

a whitish grayish or flesh red color It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes and therefore in

Resembling granite in granular appearance as granitoid gneiss a granitoid pavement

crystallized at depths beneath the earths surface said of granite gneiss and other rocks whose crystallization is believed of have taken

A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral