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Definition of Gneisses
1. gneiss [n] - See also: gneiss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gneisses
Literary usage of Gneisses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1896)
"The gneisses are granitoid, and generally massive. Hornblende is the most abundant
of the dark- colored silicates present. The gneisses are cut by masses of ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Hornblende-gneisses are usually darker in colour and less fissile than ...
Pyroxene-gneisses are less frequent but occur in many parts of both hemispheres. ..."
3. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"CONCLUSION AS TO METHODS OF IDENTIFYING gneisses AND SCHISTS The writer knows of
no case where all the evidences above cited have been used in the ..."
4. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"The use of texture as a criterion for the identification of primary gneisses
seems on the whole, then, to be only of limited application, ..."
5. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"The use of texture as a criterion for the identification of primary gneisses
seems on the whole, then, to be only of limited application, ..."
6. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"The coarse banded gneisses are usually the foundations on which the stratified
... There is thus an obvious advantage in treating these gneisses first in an ..."
7. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Discrimination Between Primary and Secondary gneisses.—Primary gneisses are
igneous rocks which possess a foliation produced before crystallization was ..."
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