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Home Dictionary Name: micaGneiss
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...
Biotite
Mica containing iron and magnesia generally of a black or dark green color a common constituent of crystalline rocks See Mica...
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...
Lepidolite
A species of mica of a lilac or rose violet color containing lithia It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales See Mica...
Lepidomelane
An iron potash mica of a raven black color usually found in granitic rocks in small six sided tables or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales See Mica...
Micaceo calcareous
Partaking of the nature of or consisting of mica and lime applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime...
Micaceous
Pertaining to or containing mica splitting into laminaelig or leaves like mica...
Muscovy glass
Mica muscovite See Mica...
Phlogopite
A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze red or copperlike color and a pearly luster It is a silicate of aluminia with magnesia potash and some fluorine It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine See Mica...
Schist
Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure see Foliation and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates The common kinds are mica schist and hornblendic schist consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar...
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