schiste

We hugged the right side to avoid the rapid swirl; there was no backwater at the points, and hard work was required to prevent our being swept against the boulders of gneiss, schiste, and pudding-stone edging the shores and stretching into the stream.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

In many places basalt in piles and crumbling strata of hornblende schiste, disposed edgeways, green within, and without blackened by sun and rain, cropped out of the ground.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

Ghauts a plateau of primitive rocks mixed with sandstone, granite, syenite, mica schiste, quartz rock, micaceous grit, &c.

First footsteps in East Africa

They consist of talcose-schiste, bluish-grey limestone, talc in beds, serpentine, black marble similar to the oldest in the Alps, quartz, feldspar, and porphyries.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.

Above the Ghauts a plateau of primitive rocks mixed with sandstone, granite, syenite, mica schiste, quartz rock, micaceous grit, &c.

First Footsteps in East Africa

We hugged the right side to avoid the rapid swirl; there was no backwater at the points, and hard work was required to prevent our being swept against the boulders of gneiss, schiste, and pudding-stone edging the shores and stretching into the stream.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

St. Sulpice, is built of poor schiste and bad sandstone-rubble, revetted with good lava and basalt.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

The bed of the river was formed by talc-schiste, in strata, the strike of which was from north by west to south by east, standing almost perpendicular, with a slight dip to the eastward.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845

In one of the creeks I observed pegmatite; pebbles of talc-schiste and of white quartz covered the bed of the river.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845

Talc-schiste cropped out in one of the deep creeks.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845