Crossword-Solution: SCHISTS
We have 7 clues for the answer “SCHISTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flaky metamorphic rocks | 1 answer |
| Flaky rocks | 1 answer |
| Foliated rocks. | 1 answer |
| Rocks that split readily. | 1 answer |
| Crystalline rocks | 2 answers |
| Fissile rocks. | 2 answers |
| Layered minerals | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZEAMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCHISTS (5)
But the colors of those gray-blue granites, mingling with the black and tawny schists, must have been seen in order to understand how vividly a spectral image was suggested by the empty and gloomy carcass of the building.
But all geologists, excepting the few who believe that our present metamorphic schists and plutonic rocks once formed the primordial nucleus of the globe, will admit that these latter rocks have been stripped of their covering to an enormous extent.
Nor does the almost universally volcanic composition of such islands favour the admission that they are the wrecks of sunken continents; if they had originally existed as continental mountain ranges, some at least of the islands would have been formed, like other mountain summits, of granite, metamorphic schists, old fossiliferous and other rocks, instead of consisting of mere piles of volcanic matter.
Dark trappean rocks full of hornblende have in many places burst through these schists, and appear in nodules on the surface.
All that I say is that when slate and the metamorphic schists occur in the same neighbourhood, the cleavage and foliation are uniform: of this I have seen many cases, but I have never observed slate overlying mica-slate.
Quotes with SCHISTS (1)
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is s…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2016).