Adjective modifier

• granitic: The substrata are mostly sandstone of various formation, and granitic gneiss, of which the rocks are mainly composed.

• black: The church's main point of interest are the three tombs carved in black gneiss depicting knights in armor.

Modifies a noun

• region: Exhumation of UHP rocks by transtension in the western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides.

Noun used with modifier

• granite: Natural soils have developed from a parent material consisting of glacial till derived from granite and granite gneiss.

• feldspar: The anorthosite and garnet - pyroxene - feldspar gneisses are intimately related and the complex was probably originally layered.

• hornblende: The hornblende gneiss is dark in color and occurs as pods and bands within the lighter colored gneiss.