 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a talus, which see. GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the...a laminated texture. The word is a German miner's terra. GRAMINE*:, the order of plants to which grasses belong. Etym., gramen, grass. GRANITE. An unilratified... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a talut, which see. GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the...laminated texture. The word is a German miner's term. GRAMIKE./E, the order of plants to which grasses belong. Etym., gramen, grass. GRANITE. An unstratified... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a talus, which see. GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the...laminated texture. The word is a German miner's term. GJI.ASIINK/K, the order of plants to which grasses belong. Etym,, gramen, grass. GRANITE. An unstratified... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 422 pages
...fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a lulus, which see. GKEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials...laminated texture. The word is a German miner's term. GRAHINE^B, the order of plants to which grasses belong. Etym., gramen, grass. GRANITE. An unstratified... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - Geology - 1836 - 552 pages
...of beds of clay and marl, the geological position of which is between the upper and lower greensand. Gneiss. — A stratified primary rock, composed of...laminated texture. The word is a German miner's term. Granite. — An unstratified or igneous rock, generally found inferior to or associated with the oldest... | |
 | geologocal survey of pennsylvania - Geology - 1838 - 446 pages
...dug out of the earth. •"• if ' • "' Chttias. A stratified primary nick . composed 'of the ^ame materials as granite, but having usually a larger proportion of mica, and a i •.''/• •-"••'' j-'is-'"i ''• '"Tni " ''-' -j'' ' A ' •^)•*v.,'. .^^••-vO: laminated... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1839 - 910 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystallised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in. parallel la\ers, which give it a striped aspect. « Geode. Geodiferous.... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1839 - 584 pages
...simple mineral, which is usually red and crystal- . lised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which give it a striped aspect. Geode. Geodiferous. G codes... | |
 | Henry Schenck Tanner - Canals - 1840 - 294 pages
...insentient or unorganized frame ; or of those masses of rock, strata, minerals, &c. of which it is composed. Gneiss, a stratified primary rock, composed of the...granite, but having usually a larger proportion of mica, with a laminous texture. Graduation, the act of modifying or adjusting a roadway into a particular... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Administrative agencies - 1841 - 630 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystalized. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which will give it a striped aspect. Geode. Geodiferous.... | |
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GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but having usually a larger proportion of mica, and a laminated texture. The word is a German miner's term. 
