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a rock that flaked under pressure and came out shimmering with attitude
means A medium-grade metamorphic rock that splits easily into thin layers, its surface glittering with aligned mica and other platy minerals.
from From French 'schiste,' which came from Latin 'schistos' and ultimately Greek 'skhistos,' meaning 'split' or 'divided' — from the verb 'skhizein,' 'to split' (the same root that gives us 'schism' and 'schizo-'). The Greeks named it for exactly what it does: cleaves cleanly along its layers.
- name origin
- Greek for split, because it cleaves into sheets
- mica makeup
- its sparkle comes from aligned mica crystals
- pressure born
- forms deep underground from squeezed, baked mudstone
- manhattan bedrock
- holds up skyscrapers across New York City
- foliated
- its minerals line up in visible wavy bands
schist of the dachstein — austrian alps formation, famous for its mineral-rich outcrops producing garnets and mica near hallstatt
schist of the himalayas — indian-tibetan belt containing metamorphic schist with garnets and tourmalines, exposed in kashmir and himachal pradesh