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Definition of Schists
1. schist [n] - See also: schist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schists
Literary usage of Schists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"The schists occur on the periphery •of a great granite mass, ... with a foliation
produced by pressure, but in this case aa in the case of the schists ..."
2. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"A great variety of other schists, corresponding to the variations in the sediments
themselves, have received special descriptive names. Graphite schists ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"The Evidence of the Hydrothermal Metamorphism of the schists of South Devon.
By AR HUNT, FGS The author contends that a dominant cause of alteration in the ..."
4. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Subsequently K. Koch proposed to regard the crystalline schists of the Taunus as
Cambrian (Huronian),4 and they have been indicated on the Geological Survey ..."
5. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"There are clay slates, glossy with mica ; these sn? trae phyllites. There are
siliceous schists, which have resulted from the foliation of sandstones ..."
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