Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metamorphic rock consisting of similarly sized, interlocking minerals, especially feldspar, quartz, and garnet, and lacking the layering and foliation characteristic of other metamorphic rocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rock often having a parallel or foliated structure like that of gneiss, and consisting mainly of quartz and feldspar, together with red garnets, which are usually of very diminutive size.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called
whitestone , andleptynite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A fine-grained
metamorphic rock composed chiefly offeldspar ,quartz , andgarnets
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Examples
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Kaniapiskau Plateau forms the core of Lake Plateau in the central and south-central area, and is composed of massive granulite and charnockite Archean rocks.
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Gemstones are found in the Usagaran and Ubendian granulite system.
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The rock was of garnet gneiss, traversed by black dykes of pyroxene granulite.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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