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Home Dictionary Name: schistSchist
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...
Schistose
Of or pertaining to schist having the structure of a schist...
Flysch
A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps and included in the Eocene Tertiary...
Longmynd rocks
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates grits schists and slates of Great Britain which lie at the base of the Cambrian system so called because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills Shropshire...
Micaceo calcareous
Partaking of the nature of or consisting of mica and lime applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime...
Ottrelite
A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists...
Paragonite
A kind of mica related to muscovite but containing soda instead of potash It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps...
Sericite
A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure It is characteristic of sericite schist...
Slate
An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates argillite argillaceous schist...
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