In the granite and schist of the mountains, a good day was 100 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street's Speed War] Reference

The geologic materials are mostly late Pre-Cambrian schist and gneiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

The visual said finegrained schist with phyllosilicates all the way down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

The parent rock is predominantly schist with only minor intrusions of greywacke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference

Soils above 1,100 m are nutrient-poor, overlying a base rock of granite and schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina] Reference

Because the buildings are mudbrick and schist, a wholesale relocation isn't possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist History] Reference

Among notable blasts made by this system are the following: At the mica schist quarries, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference

Geologically, it consists mainly of schist and gneisses underlain in some parts by granites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Araya and Paria xeric scrub] Reference

Irwin's roots were deep in the schist of this great city, which his grandfather helped build.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Snubs Humpty-Dumpty, Chooses Amazon's Jeff Bezos] Reference

The rolling to hilly, well-dissected upland contains mostly schist, gneiss, and granite bedrock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

Hudson schist, but it varied widely in its mineral constituents and in its physical characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158] Reference

The mountains consist of strongly deformed sedimentary and volcanic rocks, with some bodies of schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ahklun Mountains Tundra - Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

In the western portion, west of Atlanta and into Alabama, mica schist and micaceous saprolite are typical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

The material of this inhospitable coast is a hard metamorphic schist which bids defiance to time and weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference

A square was discovered 20 met. wide by 25 met. long, paved with large slabs of granite of greenish blue schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Paleozoic substrates such as granite, schist, micaschist, diorite, and gneiss are found on Corsica and Sardinia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

The Barnard Metamorphics of largely schist and gneiss, which outcrop in the south-east, may be part of this Basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia] Reference

Gneiss, schist and granite are the dominant rock types, covered with deep saprolite and mostly red, clayey subsoils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

This band of schist narrows as it extends further north-east, paralleling the Alpine Fault on its south-eastern side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference

Metamorphic schist, limestone, ultrabasic rocks, and volcanic rocks are the main parent rock formations of the ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

Generally speaking, the ecoregion is composed of very old crystalline substrates (granite, schist, quartzite, and marble).    From Wordnik.com.  [Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

The Central mountain ranges have a predominance of crystalline metamorphic substrates, mainly granite, quartzite, and schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iberian conifer forests] Reference

Precambrian units are widespread and consist of quartzite, schist, phyllite, conglomerate, dolomite, siltstone and sandstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

The structure has no roof over the main portion, but what was apparently an apse still retains its roof of long slabs of schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Here, beneath the litter-strewn streets, the bedrock of Hartland schist yielded to a different formation, the Cambrian Manhattan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

O'BRIEN: The question, though, at the heart of that, aside from the schist, is the question of why did this become such a big issue?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: What's the Deal with John Rocker? - July 1, 2000] Reference

Upland soils are shallow, reddish brown, stony, sandy loams over granite, gneiss, and schist with deeper sandy loams in the valleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

For a long time past there have been used in schools slate tablets upon which the pupils write with a pencil made of soft gray schist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference

The schist we'd found on Boohte wasn't gold-bearing, and there were no signs of salt or drainage anomalies, so it wasn't an anticline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

The geology of the Borneo Lowland Rain Forests consists of limestones, volcanic rocks, schist-gneiss complexes, and sedimentary rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borneo lowland rain forests] Reference

It is characterized by mother rocks of sandstone, schist and acidic granite with a relatively moist and thick soil with surface streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam] Reference

We find a detached formation called the Nurra mountains, composed of granite, schist, and primitive limestone, filling the isthmus of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The typical crystalline rock types include granite, gneiss, schist, and metavolcanics, covered by well-drained, acidic brown loamy soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)] Reference

Manhattan Island is a low outcrop of gneiss and mica-schist, sloping from an irregular, but practically continuous crest, to the Hudson and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

On its eastern margin in Mount Cook National Park, the schist gradually changes back into Permian-Triassic greywacke of a separate terrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference