micaceous

Definitions

Examples

• Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.

• Among the loose stones at the foot of the portage, I picked up a specimen of micaceous oxide of iron.

• Thus, highly micaceous sandstones, as they are traced into a metamorphic region, are seen to pass gradually into mica-schist.

• An important character is the perfect micaceous cleavage parallel to the basal plane, on which plane the lustre is pearly.

• The pepitas occur in different forms, often adhering to micaceous specular iron.