It is in some layers pure and white, in others it is traversed by many gray layers of gneissose and other matter, or by irregular bands and nodules of pyroxene and serpentine, and it contains subordinate beds of dolomite.
Ottawa, twisting itself like a great serpent in the midst of the gneissose rocks; and one of the most fruitful localities is at a place called Côte St. Pierre on this band.
These are penetrated by eucrites and gabbros, followed later by granites; and the whole has been subsequently crushed into a complex gneissose mass.
These rocks are closely connected with the gneissose granites and gneiss, and there are reasons for believing that the latter are the deep-seated portions of them and are only visible where they have been exposed by denudation.
The surface of a large part of the colony is composed of gneiss, and of gneissose granite, which is seen in large water-worn bosses in the river beds.
It is of pale mottled green gneissose rock, with veins of transparent pale green, like jade, and was found in a barrow in Shetland.
It must ever be borne in mind that the presence of a gneissose or schistose complex does not in itself imply the Archean age of such a set of rocks.
In Brittany a gneissose and schistose igneous series lies at the base of the pre-Cambrian.
Now, however, it has been shown, both in Europe and in North America, that in certain regions a schistose series is penetrated by a gneissose series and when this occurs the schists must be the older.
The Laurentian rocks of this region resemble those of the Laurentide area, and consist of highly crystalline schistose and gneissose rocks associated with compact rocks.
In the south-east Highlands is a great mass of crystalline schists of a less gneissose character than that of the north-west, to which Sir A.
The main mass which is coarsely crystalline, becomes occasionally distinctly gneissoseand even schistose, and its mineral bands strike from north-west to south-east, i.
Except towards the south-west, about Aurillac, where lacustrine strata overlie the granite, the platform from which rises the volcanic dome is composed of granitic or gneissose rocks.
They remind one, in their generally grey hue and the extreme boldness of their lines, of some of the gneissosepinnacles of Norway, such as those above Naerodal, on the Sogne Fiord.
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