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What is the texture of gneiss?
It is usually a gray-ish color. It is foliated (the layers are in stripes). Hope I helped!
Is gneiss smooth and shiny?
Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock, displaying bands of light and dark minerals.
What rock has a foliated dense rock that has light and dark colored banding?
Gneiss
What is a foliated structure?
In geology, a foliated structure refers to a rock or mineral that is composed of thin easily separable layers. Examples of foliated rocks are gneiss, phyllite, schist and slate.
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.
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 the texture of gneiss?
It is usually a gray-ish color. It is foliated (the layers are in stripes). Hope I helped!
Metamorphic rocks having a banded or striped appearance?
Foliated Texture
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.
Is gneiss smooth and shiny?
Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock, displaying bands of light and dark minerals.
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.
