Definition of Gneissose. Meaning of Gneissose. Synonyms of Gneissose

- though rocks poor in platy minerals are more likely to produce gneissose texture. Gneissose rocks thus are largely recrystallized but do not carry large...
- spotted gabbros of Norway. In many parts of the world metamorphic rocks of gneissose character occur containing scapolite as an essential constituent. Their...
- migmatitic Paleoproterozoic garnet-bearing granitoid with variable amounts of gneissose enclaves. The name refers to occurrences at Vaasa, on the west coast of...
- and anhydrous ferromagnesian minerals, with granoblastic texture and gneissose to m****ive structure. They are of particular interest to geologists because...
- regional structures. Textures and structures presents in alkaline rocks: Gneissose appearance; folded foliation; foliation parallel to the country rocks;...
- pseudomorphs after leucite. The lujaurites frequently have a parallel-banding or gneissose structure. Sodalite-syenites in which sodalite very largely or completely...
- Epoch. The eastern part of the Pyrenees consists largely of granite and gneissose rocks, while in the western part the granite peaks are flanked by layers...
- Fissile; see also Bedding fissility. Fossiliferous Glomeroporphyritic Gneissose; gneissic Granoblastic Granophyric Granulitic Graphic Holocrystalline...
- ac****ulation under marine conditions. gneiss A co****-grained, pale-coloured gneissose rock, containing abundant feldspar with quartz, mica, hornblende, and...
- metamorphic rocks above the contact were known as "gneisses and slates" or "gneissose schists". In the classic memoir The Geological Structure of the North-west...