schistose
61tripoli — noun Etymology: French, from Tripoli, region of Africa Date: circa 1601 1. an earth consisting of very friable soft schistose deposits of silica and including diatomite and kieselguhr 2. an earth consisting of friable dustlike silica not of… …
62schistosity — noun see schistose …
63Metamorphic rock — Metamorphic redirects here. For other uses, see Metamorphic (disambiguation). Quartzite, a form of metamorphic rock, from the Museum of Geology at University of Tartu collection. Metamorphic rock is the transformation of an existing rock type,… …
64Sikkim — For other uses, see Sikkim (disambiguation). Sikkim འབྲས་མོ་ལྗོངས་ सिक्किम   S …
65Amphibolite — (pronEng|æmˈfɪbəlaɪt) is the name given to a rock consisting mainly of hornblende amphibole, the use of the term being restricted, however, to metamorphic rocks. The modern terminology for a holocrystalline plutonic igneous rocks composed… …
66Great Lyakhovsky Island — Infobox Islands name = Great Lyakhovsky image caption = Map showing the location of Lyakhovsky Islands image size = locator Location map|Russia|lat=73.4|long=141.5 map custom = yes native name = Большой Ляховский native name link = Russian… …
67Sericite — is a fine grained mica, either muscovite, illite, or paragonite. Sericite is a common alteration mineral of orthoclase or plagioclase feldspars in areas that have been subjected to hydrothermal alteration typically associated with copper, tin, or …
68Greenschist — also known as greenstone is a general field petrologic term applied to metamorphic and/or altered mafic volcanic rock. The green is due to abundant green chlorite, actinolite and epidote minerals that dominate the rock. However, basalts may… …
69Dalradian — in geology describes a series of metamorphic rocks, typically developed in the high ground which lies southeast of the Great Glen of Scotland. This was the old Celtic region of Dál Riata (Dalriada), and in 1891 Archibald Geikie proposed the name… …
70Populonia — (Latin: Populonium , Etruscan: Pupluna or Fufluna ) is a frazione of the commune of Piombino (Tuscany, Italy). It is especially noteworthy for its Etruscan remains, including one of the main necropolis in Italy. It is located at the north end of… …
