Schist is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCHIST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a type of metamorphic rock, also SHIST
• a coarse-grained metamorphic rock which consists of layers of different minerals and can be split into thin irregular plates.
• crystalline rock which splits into layers
• Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
• any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a rock that readily splits into parallel layers

Words related to SCHIST

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Words that contain SCHIST

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How to use SCHIST in a sentence

• Moore and myself ascended a hill of red schist of 300 or 400 feet elevation, in latitude 23 degrees 57 minutes 15 seconds, which had been named Mount Thompson.
• The hills which bound the valley of the creek are basalt, sandstone, and schist.
• When the calcareous region of the Gevaudan is reached, the schist, slate, and gneiss disappear.
• The naked schist, ribbed and seamed, served for pavement in the steep little streets of this picturesque old village, where most of the people went barefoot.
• Great black precipitous rocks of schist, their hollows filled with sombre foliage, rose in solemn grandeur far above me, and in the bottom the plunging stream foamed and roared.
• The sandstone of the plateau has at first been hardened, then quite metamorphosed into a chocolate-coloured schist.
• The highest rock observed with mica schist was at an altitude of 3440 feet.
• The Stack formed one of the extremities of Ellan Bay, and was a huge mass of isolated schist, accessible at low water, but entirely surrounded at high tide.
• The rock, in other places less elevated, consisted of schist or slate in laminae, dipping to the east at an angle of 60 degrees.

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