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schist (noun): A type of metamorphic rock characterized by a foliated texture and medium to coarse grains
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Bündner schists are often found along ophiolites.
Ing devoting his attention to the schists.
Mica schists form the prevalent rocks.
Most occur in areas where they are prevalent crystalline schists.
These include mica schists and dolomitic marbles.
Schists predominate this area.
The bed rock consists of metamorphic schists and quartzites.
Schists and phyllades from this region are often calcareous.
The mountains are formed by alternating strata of schists and quartzites.
The names of various schists are derived from their mineral constituents.
It also occurs in crystalline schists.
The underlying rocks are schists which leads to acid soils.
It is also found in metamorphic rocks such as gneisses and schists.
Schists are foliated metamorphic rocks that mainly have lamellar minerals like micas.
The islands are of ironstone formation overlying quartzite and crystalline schists.
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It is formed of crystalline schists and has massive glaciers down its steep southern slopes.
Its base consists essentially of granite and less often of schists.
Environment In metamorphosed schists and as a replacement mineral in igneous pegmatite dikes.
It prefers the limestone screes and the debris of calcareous schists.
In Roussillon black schists on the north bank of the Agly make the best reds.
It also occurs in metamorphic rocks such as gneiss and schists and skarns.
The Mazerolles Schists are aluminous micaschists with interbedded quartzitic layers.
Occasional dark soils are found due to extensive existence of phyllite and schists.
It occurs as rare fracture and cavity encrustations within schists derived from sedimentary rocks.
The rock types in the mountains are typically granites and metamorphic schists.
Career of schists of Saint Jacob.
Hutton concluded that the granite must be younger than the schists.
A glaucophane Green Schists paragenesis comes before a Green Schists paragenesis of lower pressure.
This phase is contemporaneous of metamorphic recrystallizations within the green schists facies.
The schists obtained in this way are the following,.
The magnetic and conductive zones may be partly related to graphitic schists and gabbro dykes.
In some cases, schists are lumped in with slates and phyllites.
A complex product obtained by the sulfonation and ammoniation of the distillation product from bituminous schists.
Then we have an Egyptian schists palette.
Here, limestone and schists belts are recorded as crossing the stream.
Some areas within the wilderness display bedrock composed of metamorphic schists with large garnet crystals.
Most schists are mica schists, but graphite and chlorite schists are also common.
The Ardennes consists of ancient primary schists and sandstones.
The region contains pelitic schists metamorphosed to lower to middle almandine-amphibolite facies.
The city geologically is composed of Archaean gneisses and crystalline schists.
The metamorphic rocks include schists and metamorphosed sandstones ( quartzites ) and dolomites.
At Glen Tilt in the Cairngorm mountains he found granite penetrating metamorphic schists.
These rocks are basically granites, gneisses and schists which are rich in ferromagnesian materials.
Therockswe ' relookingat here are called green schists.
Certain schists are derived from fine-grained igneous rocks such as basalts and tuffs.
To their south are New Harbour Group schists and psammites.
Xenoliths of metapelitic schists with garnet and staurolite porphyroblasts, psamitic gneisses and quartzites occur locally.
Granitic gneiss and pelitic-graphitic schists are widespread.
Basal crystalline schists of the Arverne Domain are followed by a well-dated Paleozoic Cambrian and Ordovician.
The majority of the rocks are often phyllites, schists and slates.
