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    gneiss

    Gneiss. Credit: Mineral Information Institute
    A course-grained banded or foliated metamorphic rock, in which the minerals are arranged in darker and lighter layers. The chief components are irregular, granular bands of quartz and feldspar alternating with thin undulating bands of micas and amphiboles.


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