gneissose

The next stage in the ascent is marked by an intermittent line of mountains -- gneissose or schistose -- running generally north-north-west, sometimes in parallel chains, and representing the primitive axis of the continent.

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East of the São Francisco it may be divided into three distinct regions: a rough limestone plateau rising gradually to the culminating ridges of the Serra da Chapada; a gneissose plateau showing extensive exposures of bare rock dipping slightly toward the coast; and a narrower plateau covered with a compact sandy soil descending to the coastal plain.

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Presently the ground becomes rougher, and the track winds among and under a succession of abrupt kopjes (pronounced "koppies"), mostly of granitic or gneissose rock.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

They remind one, in their generally grey hue and the extreme boldness of their lines, of some of the gneissose pinnacles of Norway, such as those above Naerodal, on the

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

In these granitic, gneissose, and quartzose formations topazes, amethysts and sapphires, garnets and rubies, will probably occur, as in the similar rocks of the great Brazilian mining-grounds.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855