schist
shist
- n any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- Neill has poured heart and soul not only into such successes as The Piano and the Jurassic Park movies but also into the alluvial-schist soil of the South Island of New Zealand .
- There is a seam of mica schist outcropping on Bear Hill with the garnets set so thickly in it, that in parts they compose 85% of the whole by weight, and the seam is expected .
- It descends more than a mile into the earth, and along one stretch, is some 18 miles wide, its walls displaying impressive layers of limestone, sandstone, shale, schist and granite.