Crossword-Solution: PHYLLITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phyllite | n. | A mineral related to ottrelite. |
| Phyllite | n. | Clay slate; argillaceous schist. |
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| Metamorphic rock | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PHYLLITE (5)
Under somewhat greater pressure, slate becomes PHYLLITE, a clay slate whose cleavage surfaces are lustrous with flat-lying mica flakes.
All gradations between it and phyllite may be traced, and in many cases we may prove it due to the metamorphism of slates and shales.
The rocky cliffs, about eighty feet in height at the highest point, were formed of vertically lying slate rocks--a very uniform series of phyllite and sericite-schist.
The lowest bed of a calcarous sericitic schist [9] is four feet thick and underlies a bed of schistose lime stone [10] six feet in thickness, which is in turn covered by a finely laminated phyllite, [11] ten feet thick.
Forty-six miles above Seal Lake an exposure of phyllite was seen, the same in every respect as the one east of Seal Lake, just mentioned.