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What is the texture of gneiss?
Gneiss has a foliated texture, meaning it has visible layers or bands of different minerals. These layers are typically arranged in a repetitive pattern, giving gneiss a distinct texture that can vary in appearance depending on the type of minerals present.
Are slate and gneiss foliated?
Slate is certainly foliated and splits easily along this foliation surface. Gneisses frequently banded and this banding is also a foliation.
What property distinguishes foliated metamorphic rock such as gneiss and schist from nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
A banded texture
What property distinguishes foliated metamorphic rocks such as gneiss and schist from nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
a banded texture
What is an example of a foliated metamorphic rock?
Foliated rocks have layers in them. We often refer to the layers as Banding.
Is gneiss a foliated or a non foliated rock?
foliated
Is gneiss folaited or nonfolaited?
Gneiss is foliated.
What are the characteristics of gneiss?
Gneiss is foliated and coarse grained
Is gniess foliated?
Yes. Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock.
What are the properties of gneiss rock?
texture: foliated
What is gneiss and schist?
Both are foliated metamorphic rocks in which individual minerals can be seen with the naked eye. The difference is that gneiss is generally more coarsely crystalline and has color banding and schist smells bad.
What major rock is foliated?
Slate, gneiss, schist. Metamorphic rocks. Just the foliated ones.
What is a kind of foliated metamorphic rock?
Slate
What grain structure does gneiss have?
Gneiss which is a non-foliated meta-igneous rock is coarse grained in texture.
What is the texture of gneiss?
Gneiss has a foliated texture, meaning it has visible layers or bands of different minerals. These layers are typically arranged in a repetitive pattern, giving gneiss a distinct texture that can vary in appearance depending on the type of minerals present.
Are Gneiss crystalline?
Yes, the gneiss rocks are usually crystalline. The gneiss rocks are foliated or banded metamorphic rocks that have the same composition as the granite.
How are metamorphic rocks catagorized?
The largest two classifications are foliated (e.g. gneiss) and non-foliated (e.g. marble).
