Granulite meaning

    grăn'yə-līt'
    A metamorphic rock consisting of similarly sized, interlocking minerals, especially feldspar, quartz, and garnet, and lacking the layering and foliation characteristic of other metamorphic rocks.
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    A metamorphic rock consisting of uniformly sized, interlocked mineral grains in which coarse and finer bands may alternate.
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    A fine-grained metamorphic rock consisting of similarly sized, interlocking minerals. Unlike most metamorphic rocks, granulites do not exhibit foliation or textural or mineralogical layering.
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    (geology) A fine-grained metamorphic rock composed chiefly of feldspar, quartz, and garnets.
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    • For the commoner grades of dark-coloured bottles the glass mixture is cheapened by substituting common salt for part of the sulphate of soda, and by the addition of felspar, granite, granulite, furnace slag and other substances fusible at a high temperature.

    • Glass is made from granulite found in the Meldon Valley, 3 m.

    • Graphite occurs mainly in the older crystalline rocks - gneiss, granulite, schist and crystalline limestone - and also sometimes in granite: it is found as isolated scales embedded in these rocks, or as large irregular masses or filling veins.

    • Three divisions are distinguished by some authors - the grey gneiss, the red iron gneiss and the granulite.

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