Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
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Schist
//ʃɪst//
Synonyms for "schist" (41 found)
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34 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- шиста noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Catalan
1 entries- esquist noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 泥板岩 noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- 片岩 noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- 頁岩 /页岩 noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Dutch
1 entries- schist noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Esperanto
1 entries- skisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Finnish
1 entries- liuske noun (crystalline foliated rock)
French
1 entries- schiste noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Galician
1 entries- xisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
German
4 entries- Blauschiefer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- Glaukophanschiefer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- Glimmerschiefer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- Graphitschiefer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Hungarian
2 entries- csillámpala noun (crystalline foliated rock)
- kristályos pala noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Ido
1 entries- skisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Indonesian
1 entries- sekis noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Ingrian
1 entries- slantsa noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Italian
1 entries- scisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Japanese
1 entries- 片岩 noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Macedonian
1 entries- шкри́лец noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Malay
1 entries- syis noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Māori
1 entries- kurupaku noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skifer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skifer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Portuguese
1 entries- xisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Russian
1 entries- сла́нец noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- šist noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Slovene
1 entries- škriljevec noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Spanish
1 entries- esquisto noun (crystalline foliated rock)
Swedish
1 entries- glimmerskiffer noun (crystalline foliated rock)
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1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29, Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
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Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
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