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Lewisian[edit]

Most of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland have a bedrock formed from Lewisian gneiss. This bedrock contains rocks that are among the oldest in Europe and indeed the world, having been formed in the Precambrian "super-eon" up to three billion years ago. In addition to the Outer Hebrides, they form basement deposits on the Scottish mainland west of the Moine Thrust and on the islands of Coll and Tiree.^[3] These rocks are largely igneous in origin, mixed with metamorphosed marble, quartzite and mica schist with later intrusions of basaltic dykes and granite magma.^[4] The gneiss's delicate pink colours are exposed throughout the islands.^[5]

Augen gneiss[edit]

Henderson augen gneiss

Augen gneiss, from the German: Augen [ˈaʊɡən], meaning "eyes", is a coarse-grained gneiss resulting from metamorphism of granite, which contains characteristic elliptic or lenticular shear-bound feldspar porphyroclasts, normally microcline, within the layering of the quartz, biotite and magnetite bands.

Archean and Proterozoic gneiss[edit]

Archean and Proterozoic gneisses appear in Scandinavia (the Baltic Shield).

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  Boulder of gneissic breccia on Osmussaar, Estonia, apparently thrown there by the Neugrund impact
   
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  Study of Gneiss Rock, Glenfinlas, theTrossachs, Scotland. A pen and ink study by John Ruskin, 1853, is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Henderson Gneiss[edit]

Henderson Gneiss is in North Carolina and South Carolina, USA, east of the Brevard Shear Zone. It has deformed into two sequential forms. The second more warped form is associated with the Brevard Fault and the first deformation results from displacement to the southwest.^[6]

See also[edit]

• List of rock types

Footnotes[edit]

1. Jump up^ Online Etymology Dictionary
2. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c d e} Essentials of Geology, 3rd Ed, Stephen Marshak
3. Jump up^ Gillen (2003) page 44.
4. Jump up^ McKirdy et al. (2007) page 95.
5. Jump up^ Murray (1966) p. 2
6. Jump up^ Kinematics of Late Paleozoic Continental Collision Between Laurentia and GondwanaScience, December 21, 1990, v. 250, p. 1702-1705

References[edit]

• Blatt, Harvey and Robert J. Tracy (1996). Petrology: Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic, 2nd ed. Freeman, pp. 359–365. ISBN 0-7167-2438-3.
• Gillen, Con (2003). Geology and landscapes of Scotland. Harpenden. Terra Publishing. ISBN 1-903544-09-2.
• McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger (2007). Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-357-0.
• Murray, W.H. (1966). The Hebrides. London. Heinemann.