Sedimentary or metamorphic rock.
1The schistose rocks from Scott's Nunatak are streaked, and, in part, very fine-grained quartz diorite schists.
2Fine rhombic dodecahedra occur in the schistose rocks of the Zillerthal, in Tyrol, and are sometimes cut and polished.
3A gulf, containing hot and submarine springs, divides the secondary from the primary and schistose rocks of the peninsula of Araya.
4The angular and subangular stones that it contained were an irregular mixture of different varieties of trap, conglomerate, and schistose rocks.
Translations for schistose rock