Definitions for gneisses

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Gneisses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in gneisses (eeginsss).

Definitions for gneisses

noun

  1. a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.

Origin of gneisses

Borrowed into English from German around 1750-60

Examples for gneisses

At the base of the descent, clay-slate rocks replaced the gneiss.

Everywhere granite, gneiss, or other primitive rocks, show themselves.

Come,” I said, “let us go back till we find the joining of the gneiss and granite.

Garnet, for example, is commonly found as crystals in gneiss and mica schist.

To it we diverged and found it to be gneiss similar to that of Aurora Peak.

My ground was on the gneiss side of the geological division.

The base of all was granite; then gneiss; and others followed in their order.

At their extremities they include some layers of gneiss and slate.

Here and there are mixtures of schist, gneiss, and porphyry.

The southern parts of this range of mountains are composed of gneiss and granite.

Word Value for gneisses
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Words with friends

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