schist (Q41937)
From geokb
Foliated phaneritic metamorphic rock with well developed, continuous schistosity, meaning that greater than 50 percent of the rock by volume is mineral grains with a thin tabular, lamellar, or acicular prismatic crystallographic habit that are orient
- Schistes
- Schistes cristallins
- Schiste
- Schiefer
- Crystalline schist
- Kristalline Schiefer
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English | schist |
Foliated phaneritic metamorphic rock with well developed, continuous schistosity, meaning that greater than 50 percent of the rock by volume is mineral grains with a thin tabular, lamellar, or acicular prismatic crystallographic habit that are orient |
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