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n. - A fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks.

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  • They went single file, stopping once to clear a rockfall, pitching splintered chunks of shale and hornfels into the groan - ing trench to their right.
  • The bottom of DDH 152 ended in hornfels andesitic tuff / flow with increased copper.
  • -- TB High Grade Zone - 500 metre of anomalous hornfels zone with drill results including:
  • When plate tectonic activity formed the Rocky Mountains, the hornfels lifted up along with the shale that surrounded it.
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