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"Exfoliate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dipping at a high angle (between 50 and 60 degrees) generally to S.E.: so that here again we meet with the strike so prevalent over the more northern parts of this continent. The mountains of gneiss-granite are to a remarkable degree abruptly conical, which seems caused by the rock tending to exfoliate in thick, conically concentric layers: these peaks resemble in shape those of phonolite and other injected rocks on volcanic islands; nor is the grain or foliation (as we shall afterwards see) any difficulty on the idea of the gneiss-granite having ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin |
Words linked to "Exfoliate" : throw off, grow, chip, come off, chip off, break away, peel off, break off, shed, spread, spread out, open, cast, unfold |
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