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Things gneiss often describes (“gneiss ________”)
granite, facies, complex, domes, belt, belts, contact, complexes, terrain, terranes, rock, basement, rocks, zone, unit, terrane, terrains, area, series, granites, formation, forms, bedrock, region, breccias, hills, country, group, transition, type, structure, runs, surface, bands, breaks, inclusions, dome, graduates, pebbles, fig, layer, predominates, clasts, crust, fragments, contacts, mass
How gneiss often is described (“________ gneiss”)
granitic, biotite, grained, banded, lewisian, grey, hornblende, granitoid, gray, garnet, micaceous, feldspathic, plagioclase, hornblendic, foliated, dark, garnetiferous, migmatitic, red, archaean, bearing, laurentian, coarse, hard, porphyritic, sillimanite, black, feldspar, syenitic, schistose, typical, muscovite, pink, fundamental, augen, tonalitic, cambrian, archean, quartzofeldspathic, massive, older, weathered, rich, diorite, fine, pelitic, ancient, mica, layered, metamorphic, veined, basic, porphyroblastic, granitite, decomposed, mylonitic, dioritic, cordierite, granodiorite, silicate, quartz, calcareous, contorted, acid, granodioritic, crystalline, granulitic, quartzose, leucocratic, light, basal, homogeneous, talcose, colored, compact, pyroxene, felsic, coastal, rusty, syenite, granulite, amphibole, adjacent, reddish, sheared, eastern, graphitic, felspathic, grade, epidote, composite
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