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How to use schistose in a sentence

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This rock is a dark gray schistose rock containing radiating aggregates of cummingtonite and occasionally pyrrhotite.
Southwards along section towards the Sach Pass, the leucogranites gradually decrease in abundance and the pelitic rocks becomes more schistose.
Also observed, but far less common, are fine-grained silver, pink, or pale red schistose varieties.
With increasing content of white mica the fabric changes from massive to schistose.
The amphibolite is mostly medium grained, rather schistose and has a characteristic reddish hue on weathered surfaces.
The lenses are separated by locally discordant horizons of ferruginous, silicic or graphitic, strongly schistose sedimentary to volcanic rocks.
Ideally adapted to the chalky and schistose soils of the domaine, Porto Carras' Cabernet has won many awards internationally.
It lies on a broad expanse of clay and limestone, very different from the friable schistose soils at Chteau Sainte Marguerite.
Prediction of strength properties of some schistose rocks from petrographic properties using artificial neural networks.
These schistose rocks occurrences around Ibadan constitute the southern extension of the N-S trending Iseyin Oyan belt.
Initial observations suggest that the enriched iron horizons were derived from schistose banded ironstone, with schistocity now seen as specular hematite.
Soapstone is typically massive, lineated, and slightly schistose.
Examples from Classical Literature
In Brittany a gneissose and schistose igneous series lies at the base of the pre-Cambrian.
They were thickly covered with eucalypti and brush, and, though based upon sandstone, were themselves of a schistose formation.
Here it loses part of its schistose structure, but the separation into parallel layers is still discernible.
Still more common is the occurrence of sheared, foliated or schistose forms of gabbro.
It was employed for this purpose along with tiles as far back as the eleventh century in the majority of schistose districts.
A marked schistosity accompanies this alteration, and most of the schistose planes are coated with silvery muscovite.
In regions where no sediments occur, the relation of the schistose planes to the folds can not be discovered.
The schistose rocks from Scott's nunatak are streaked, and, in part, very fine-grained quartz diorite schists.
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