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