Examples of schist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web From the sands that trapped our pickup atop Ward Terrace to the Vishnu schist—the black rock at the bottom of the canyon that is being carved away by the Colorado River—these landscapes preserve much of the past 1.8 billion years of the rock record. — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, "The Real Dilophosaurus Would Have Eaten the Jurassic Park Version for Breakfast," 1 Jan. 2021 Artist Randall Nelson of Willington located and secured the schist, and carved and installed the stone. — courant.com, "Community News For The Vernon Edition," 24 Dec. 2020 However, a decade earlier, work crews tunneling through the area had discovered that the canyon was layered through with schist in its northeastern section. — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, "Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral," 19 Aug. 2020 And, in a 1911 report, Mulholland and Lipincott wrote that the schist might be unstable. — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, "Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral," 19 Aug. 2020 Veins of schist and quartz run through its fractured sandstone soils. — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, "California winemakers bet on Mendocino County for Alpine-style wines," 1 July 2020 This Savennières, from sandy schist soils in the Anjou region, is richly textured, bright and succulent. — Eric Asimov, New York Times, "20 Wines Under $20: Touring the World, Familiar to Obscure," 25 Jan. 2018 But not all of Piedmont has limestone — the Gattinara area, for instance, is all schist. — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, "Rhys Vineyards' Kevin Harvey turns to Italian-style wines in Sonoma," 8 Dec. 2017 The highlight of the park is of course the gorge, where walls of red-gray rhyolite schist, a hard volcanic rock, rise up to 40 feet along the Eau Claire River. — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Dells of the Eau Claire is a gorgeous county park near Wausau," 2 Nov. 2017

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History and Etymology for schist

borrowed from French schiste (Middle French pierre schiste, with pierre "stone"), borrowed from Latin schistos (in Pliny's Naturalis historia) "a kind of iron ore, perhaps limonite," shortened from lapis schistos, literally, "fissile stone," from lapis "stone" + schistos "easily split, fissile," borrowed from Greek schistós "split, divided," verbal adjective of schízein "to split, separate" — more at shed entry 1

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