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Schist   /ʃɪst/   Listen
Schist

noun
1.
Any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.





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"Schist" Quotes from Famous Books



... abandoned dwellings as tombs. To the present day some of them are still occupied, mainly by shepherds and poor peasants. The range in the Crimea from Cape Kersonese to the Bay of Ratla is formed of layers of limestone alternating with clay and argilaceous schist, a disposition of the strata that tends greatly to accelerate the disintegration of the cliffs. The clay gradually washed out by springs or eaten away by the weather forms great caverns in the sides, and these are liable to fall in when deprived of support. They have, however, ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
... somewhat different in different countries; but there is a general character to the extent of these being a mixture of flagstones, marly rocks, and sandstones, usually of a laminous structure, with conglomerates. There is also a schist shewing the presence of bitumen; a remarkable new ingredient, since it is a vegetable production. In the conglomerates, of great extent and thickness, which form, in at least one district, the basis or leading feature of the system, inclosing water-worn ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers
... Gneiss. Hornblende-schist. Serpentine. Mica-schist. Clay-slate. Quartzite. Chlorite-schist. Metamorphic Limestone. Origin of the metamorphic Strata. Their Stratification. Fossiliferous Strata near intrusive Masses of Granite converted into Rocks identical ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... long time past there have been used in schools slate tablets upon which the pupils write with a pencil made of soft gray schist. This application, which is capable of rendering services in a host of details of domestic economy, has given rise to artificial slates, which, made by a process of moulding a composition analogous to cardboard pulp, present the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various


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