augengneiss

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of metamorphic rock characterized by large, lenticular mineral grains or crystal aggregates (usually feldspar or quartz grains that have been deformed during metamorphism), resembling eyes, embedded within a finer-grained matrix. countable,uncountable
    — The term ‘Augengneiss’ has a definite use in German petrography, and is properly used to denote those gneisses "in which single large felspar-masses (orthoclase), in form ranging from the blunt lenticular to the approximately spherical, occur, segregated from the matrix of the rock which possesses a schistose (schieferig) or coarse grained (flaserig) structure, and around which the mica-laminæ adhere."

词形变化

augengneisses plural

词源

From German Augen (“eyes”) + gneiss
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