Crystalline, flaky rock

Usage examples of schist.

Through the bars of the cage, Marchpane saw among the layers of schist a seam of glass catch at the lamplight, and then another.

They consist chiefly of granulitic quartzose schists and felspathic gneisses, permeated in places by strings and veins of pegmatite.

It was not until perhaps an hour after dark that the vehicle finally slowed, coming to rest on a flat outcropping of pale schist.

The Archean, composed of gneiss and crystalline schists, and traversed by eruptive veins, extends over the greater part of the Eastern Rumelian plain, the Rilska Planina, Rhodope, and the adjacent ranges.

Built mainly in blocks of slatelike schist cemented with banco, their interior walls had been decorated with a yellow plaster of which a little is still preserved.

String of the underground river was lost to them beneath layers upon layers of boulders, seeping, winding, bifurcating and rejoining, weaving its thousand threads along the schist floor far below.

It is, therefore, tolerably certain that the underlying older formation of gneisses, crystalline schists and granites, etc.

She knew that metamorphic rocks broke that way, but schists and such were generally too weak to make good tools.

Rude stone walls supported cedar poles for rafters and tiles of mica schist for the roof.

Very little rock and none of it blasted or chipped, no limestone or Manhattan mica schist.

Through shale, through coal, through marble, through mica schist, through quartzite.

It was a twisted white pine that was growing out of the juncture of another decaying quartz vein and the schist it was intruded into, which was weaker.

Near Saalfeld (less than ten miles from the Ring of Fire) are some interesting metamorphic quartzites and schists near the Kamsdorf mine, and the Jeramiah's Gluck mine (Feengrotten).

Limestone, sandstone, medium-grade schists, and other metamorphics down below at this end of the Med.