schist
English
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Schist
Etymology
From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɪst/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
schist (countable and uncountable, plural schists)
- Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
- 1890, George Huntington Williams, The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan, US Geological Survey, Number 62, page 74,
- Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
- 1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29,
- Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
- 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii
- Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
- 1890, George Huntington Williams, The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan, US Geological Survey, Number 62, page 74,
Derived terms
- blueschist
- grayschist
- greenschist, green schist
- quartz schist
- whiteschist
Related terms
Related terms
- schistaceous
- schistic
- schistose
- schistosity
- schistous
- schisty
Translations
crystalline foliated rock
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See also
- gneiss
Anagrams
- stichs
Dutch
Etymology
From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχυζειν (skhuzein, “to split”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
schist f or m (plural schisten)
- schist
Derived terms
- schisteus