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What does gneissic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) of or relating to gneiss
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Granitic and gneissic outcrops as centers of diversity for desiccation-tolerant vascular plants.
Scattered throughout the Pena Negra migmatites there are small bodies of Upper Proterozoic gneissic granodiorite and granite.
The amounts of gibbsite and kaolin were inversely related in regolith derived from metadolerite and gneissic granite at Jarrahdale.
The study area near Tirunelveli,Tamilnadu, India is covered with the Charnockites group of Archean period rocks and by metasedimentary gneissic formations.
A fine-grained rock of gneissic structure having a faint pink color.
The native silver occurs along grain boundaries and in fine fractures cutting the gneissic foliation.

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