We found a dead cormorant shattered on the phyllite boulders.    From Wordnik.com.  ["If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?"] Reference

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

Aaron Slate, phyllite, metasiltstone, metatuff, felsic volcanic rocks, and Virgilina Greenstone underlie Ecoregion 45c in Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference

We climbed down onto the snow-dappled rocks, and sat watching the sea sloshing against the tilted, contorted beds of slate and phyllite.    From Wordnik.com.  ["If looks could kill, they probably will..."] Reference

That means the rocks are quite a bit older than the Cambrian and Ordovician slate and phyllite at Beavertail, two miles to the southwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Books and the Sea] Reference

Ridge crests are underlain by resistant sandstone and quartzite, while side slopes are made up of phyllite, shale, siltstone, and sandstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference

The lowlands below the escarpment are a complex of Carboniferous/Permian metamorphic and sedimentary rocks (slate, phyllite, sandstone and conglomerate).    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia] Reference

It was too bitterly cold to be on the western side of the island, but there was shelter from the wind below the cliffs of slate and phyllite on the eastern side.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..."] Reference

The more resistant sequences, such as quartzite, form most of the prominent ranges in the area, while less resistant schist, dolomite and phyllite underline many of the valleys and plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

Schists of the Wissahickon and Peters Creek Very resistant quartzite and phyllite of the Chickies, Antietam, and Harpers formations form the highest areas, the Pigeon Hills and Hellam Hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference

We climbed over the craggy outcrops of Cambro-Ordovician age Fort Burnside Formation and Jamestown Formation, crazily tilted beds of phyllite and slate and siltstone and stark white veins of calcite.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Into a light that lingers."] Reference

I found a comfortable spot (about .44 miles northeast of the lighthouse) among the tilted beds of Cambrian-aged phyllite and slate, and I just lay there in the sun, listening to the sea and watching the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  ["While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy, high..."] Reference

The geology is also distinctive, consisting of mostly Silurian to Devonian age phyllite, quartzite, slate, metasiltstone, and metaconglomerate, in contrast to the high-grade metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks of 45a and 45b.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

Here, rocks of the Cambro-Ordovician Conanicut Group, specifically interstratified beds of the Fort Burnside Formation and the older Jamestown Formation form great flat tables of phyllite and siltstone, metamorphosed to varying degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Don't let the Earth in me subside..."] Reference

The phyllite is highly deformed as a result of tectonic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Forty-six miles above Seal Lake an exposure of phyllite was seen, the same in every respect as the one east of Seal Lake, just mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Labrador Trail] Reference

Within this large anomaly, Skygold has identified contact parallel geochemical gold anomalies in black phyllite sequences similar to Spanish Mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The mineralization of the structure can be classified as orogenic owing to the finely disseminated nature of the gold, close association with sulfides and deposition within an original bedded organic rich (carbon) sedimentary host (Mikado phyllite).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

According to the Bukidnon Environment and Natural Resources Office, the permits were issued for silica (203 hectares), chromite small-scale mining (60 has.), phyllite schist or fine-grained rock characterized by prominent glossy sheen (168.8 has.), limestone (148.4 has.), and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [MindaNews Feeds] Reference

"The pool rested in a low hollow beneath a shading, upthrust blade of gray-white phyllite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snakes Eyes]

Snow on Cambrian-age phyllite.    From Wordnik.com.  ["A house on fire or a rising sea?" (2)] Reference

More snow on Cambrian phyllite.    From Wordnik.com.  ["A house on fire or a rising sea?" (2)] Reference

A letter "A" carved into the phyllite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Hughes Forgets How to Sleep] Reference

The geologic materials are mostly late Pre-Cambrian and include metagraywacke, metasiltstone, metasandstone, metaconglomerate, slate, schist, phyllite, and quartzite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)] Reference