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Slate can be made into roofing slate, a type of roof tile which are installed by a slater. Slate has two lines of breakability—cleavage and grain—which make it possible to split the stone into thin sheets. When broken, slate retains a natural appearance while remaining relatively flat and easy to stack.
Phyllite Photomicrograph of thin section of phyllite (in cross polarised light) Fractured Duke stone showing phyllitic texture Phyllite. Phyllite (/ ˈ f ɪ l aɪ t / FIL-yte) is a type of foliated metamorphic rock formed from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation. [1]
Phyllite Banded gneiss with a dike of granite orthogneiss Marble Quartzite Manhattan Schist, from Southeastern New York Slate. Anthracite – Hard, compact variety of coal; Amphibolite – Metamorphic rock type; Blueschist – Type of metavolcanic rock; Cataclasite – Rock found at geological faults – A rock formed by faulting
Yet, the left layout produces 13 tricks in notrump, whilst the right layout on a diamond lead would fail to produce more than 10 tricks in notrump. In this case, the difference in trick-taking potential is due to duplication in the high card values: in the bottom layout the combined 20 HCP in spades and diamonds results in only five tricks ...
The formation was originally designated as the Hondo Slate by Evan Just in his 1937 survey of pegmatites in northern New Mexico. [5] However, this name conflicted with other unit names, and it was renamed the Pilar Phyllite Member of the Ortega Formation by Arthur Montgomery in 1953 [6] Bauer and Williams promoted it to formation rank within the Vadito Group in their sweeping revision of the ...
The Waits River Formation is stratigraphically below the Gile Mountain Formation and above the Northfield Slate. [6] It is composed of beds of siliceous marble 4-10 inches thick that are interbedded with weathering mica schist and randomly distributed beds of dark, micaceous quartzite. [ 7 ]
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Foliated metaconglomerate is created under the same metamorphic conditions that produce slate or phyllite, but with the parent rock being conglomerate, rather than clay. [2] The metaconglomerates of the Jack Hills of Western Australia are the source rocks for much of the detrital zircons that have been dated to be as old as 4.4 billion years.