Definitions for schistose

schistose schis·tose

Spelling: [shis-tohs]
IPA: /ˈʃɪs toʊs/

Schistose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in schistose (cehiossst).

Definitions for schistose

adjective

  1. of, resembling, or in the form of schist.

Origin of schistose

First recorded in 1785-95; schist + -ose1

Examples for schistose

It was employed for this purpose along with tiles as far back as the eleventh century in the majority of schistose districts.

In Brittany a gneissose and schistose igneous series lies at the base of the pre-Cambrian.

Still more common is the occurrence of sheared, foliated or schistose forms of gabbro.

A marked schistosity accompanies this alteration, and most of the schistose planes are coated with silvery muscovite.

The average dip of the schistose planes is about 60°; from this they vary up to 90° and down to 20°.

In regions where no sediments occur, the relation of the schistose planes to the folds can not be discovered.

Here it loses part of its schistose structure, but the separation into parallel layers is still discernible.

schistose structure probably does not always denote shearing, at least not the shearing which results from folding.

Red shale and blue, cinder-grey and lemon-yellow; some schistose and sparkling, the bulk dull and dead.

They were thickly covered with eucalypti and brush, and, though based upon sandstone, were themselves of a schistose formation.

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