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[edit]From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).
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[edit]schist (countable and uncountable, plural schists)
- Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
- 1890, George Huntington Williams, “The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan”, in US Geological Survey, number 62, page 74:
- Although it shows under the microscope traces of the original gabbro structure and of the original gabbro minerals, no one would hesitate from a microscopical examination to class it with the schists.
- 1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29,
- Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
- 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii:
- Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
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[edit]crystalline foliated rock
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχυζειν (skhuzein, “to split”).
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[edit]schist f or m (plural schisten)
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