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Brewer's: Metamorphic Rocks

Those rocks, including gneiss, mica-schist, clay-slate, marble, and the like, which have become more or less crystalline. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Fichtelgebirge

(Encyclopedia) FichtelgebirgeFichtelgebirgefĭkhˈtəlgəbĭrˌgə [key], mountain knot, in SE Germany, between Bayreuth and the Czech border; rises to 3,447 ft (1,051 m) in Schneeberg peak. The rugged…

soapstone

(Encyclopedia) soapstone or steatitesoapstonestēˈətīt [key], metamorphic rock of which the characteristic and usually chief mineral is talc, but which also contains varying parts of chlorite, mica,…

Thousand Islands

(Encyclopedia) Thousand Islands, a group of more than 1,800 islands and 3,000 shoals in the St. Lawrence River, E of Lake Ontario, N N.Y. and S Ont., stretching c.50 mi (80 km) along the U.S.-Canada…

granite

(Encyclopedia) granite, coarse-grained igneous rock of even texture and light color, composed chiefly of quartz and feldspars. It usually contains small quantities of mica or hornblende, and minor…

Brewer's: Metals

The seven metals in alchemy. Gold, Apollo or the sun. Silver, Diana or the moon. Quicksilver, Mercury. Copper, Venus. Iron, Mars. Tin, Jupiter. Lead, Saturn. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

metamorphism

(Encyclopedia) metamorphism, in geology, process of change in the structure, texture, or composition of rocks caused by agents of heat, deforming pressure, shearing stress, hot, chemically active…

Brewer's: Metamorphic Words

Obsolete words slightly altered, and made current again- as “chestnut” for castnut, from Castana, in Thessaly; “court-cards” for coat-cards; “currants” for corinths; “frontispiece” for…

The Real World Destinations of Greek Mythology

The Real World Destinations of Greek Mythology The question "Is Mount Olympus Real" gets asked more often than you might think on the Internet. The root of this question is that, clearly, Mount…