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gneiss
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What does gneiss mean?
noun
- A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose.
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In this particular part the crystalline structure of the ice resembled that of a gneiss, showing that it had flowed under pressure.
They are neither in the gneiss, which serves as a cement to the balls, nor in the mica-slate, which the veins traverse.
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Examples of the third class are gneiss, slate, schist, and marble.
We refer to the vitrified forts, which are strange structures in which stones, such as granite and gneiss, quartzite and basalt, have been subjected to a heat so intense as to produce vitrification.
Admitting then that gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c., were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata?