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Gneiss is a type of metamorphic rock characterized by its banding, which is formed from layers of different minerals
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- A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose.
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Black bands of gneiss in the southern wall.
The type material occurred in veins in gneiss.
Example rocks include gneiss and granulite.
The gold is found as inclusions in the gneiss.
The rock is composed of gneiss and granulites.
Not all gneiss rocks have detectable banding.
The geology is moine gneiss and quartzite.
Gneiss is also present in the valley.
It is mainly gneiss with quartz veins.
The bedrock is almost entirely gneiss.
The bedrock is mainly gneiss with quartz veins.
The gneiss is interpreted to be derived from a weathered greywacke.
The bed rock is gneiss with granite veins.
They are formed of granites and gneiss.
Metamorphic schist and gneiss are also found.
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The mountain is composed primarily of granite and gneiss.
It is called nepheline syenite gneiss or litchfieldite.
These rocks are chiefly granitoids and migmatitic gneiss.
This alternates with gneiss and mica slate.
This upper layer is a gray rock called gneiss.
This gneiss contains muscovite.
The rock is mainly made of gneiss.
Amphibolite and gneiss quarry is in a neighborhood of the creek mouth.
Cordierite was discovered in nearby quartzofeldspathic gneiss.
The geochemistry of the gneiss is consistent with an arc environment.
It is made of slate and gneiss.
The gneiss has been intruded with many thinner granite sills.
This is called tonalite gneiss.
The bedrock of acid gneiss and granite is weathered to brown soil cambisols.
The base rocks of the region are granite and gneiss.
The gneiss consists of alternating bands of light and dark colored minerals.
The bedrock consists of gneiss.
Gneiss is nice.
The soil in the area is glacial schist and gneiss.
The islands have a hard granitic gneiss and a thin layer of soil.
The underlying solid rock of these islands is a granitic gneiss.
There is local evidence of weathering of the gneiss beneath the unconformity.
The ranges are composed largely of dissected granite and gneiss.
It also occurs in metamorphic rocks such as gneiss and schists and skarns.
It is also found in metamorphic rocks such as schist and gneiss.
The host rock is garnetiferous mafic gneiss that was brecciated during vein emplacement.
It is composed of granite and gneiss.
Metamorphic rocks like gneiss and mica dominate the rest of the territory.
Advantages of the gneiss rock.
A metamorphic rock which is clotted with augen is often called an augen gneiss.
Gneiss domes are structures that may be associated with both extensional and collisional orogens.
Blocks of granite and gneiss.
Diatexitic gneiss and mica gneiss are found to correlate positively with higher resistance.
It also occurs in gneiss.
This unit consists of heterogeneous gneiss containing klippes and enclaves of paragneiss and amphibolite.
