Geology.--Thegreater part of the county is composed of crystallineschists belonging to the metamorphic rocks of the Eastern Highlands.
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He will also include in his studies certain paleozoic formations which are immediately connected with the crystallineschists and involved in their orographic structure.
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Hornblende schist is common over large areas in the Lake Superior region.
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There the vein had failed, between the schist and the tertiary sandstone.
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He says-Theformation of Dunk Island is clay slates and micaceous schist.
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They were in a large tunnel with smooth walls of tormented schist.
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But now, halfway up, I was staring at crumbly, dark gray schist.
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These divisions are accented by the general finer texture of the epidotic schist.
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To your happiness, Marianne; and I took a hearty draught of the schist.
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Hornblende schist also occur and a compact felspathic rock in the Suris defile.
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Steep walls of schist rise dramatically from the river, making mechanised picking impossible.
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Here, on the great median moraine, stood a huge boulder of micaceous schist.
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The Catoctin schist is geographically the most important of the volcanic rocks of Loudoun.
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Of hornblende schist; these are elongate and intended to be used with both hands.
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The hills which bound the valley of the creek are basalt, sandstone, and schist.
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On the road to Catia we see the chloritic schist passing into hornblende schist.
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The highest rock observed with mica schist was at an altitude of 3440 feet.
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An hour-glass shaped tube made of gray hydro-mica schist, which resembles very compact steatite.