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Schist, term applied to any of several metamorphic rocks in which the crystals of the predominating mineral are aligned in parallel layers, forming...

New Jersey (Annie Griffiths Belt/Corbis)

To the north of the Piedmont area is a part of the New England Upland, known locally as the Reading Prong or New Jersey Highlands. Underlain mostly...

Quartz, most common of all minerals, composed of silicon dioxide, or silica, SiO₂. Distributed all over the world as a constituent of rocks and in the...

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- rock that splits into layers: a rock whose minerals have aligned themselves in one direction in response to deformation stresses, with the result that the rock can be split in parallel layers

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	Windows Live® Search Results Schist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The schists form a group of medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, chlorite, talc, hornblende, graphite, and ... Schist Schist is often of silvery appearance, and it shows a tendency to split into sheets, although not nearly as well as the finer grained slate. It is rich in the silvery-white ... schist - definition of schist by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ... schist (sh st) n. Any of various medium-grained to coarse-grained metamorphic rocks composed of laminated, often flaky parallel layers of chiefly micaceous minerals. See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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