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The tunnel runs through an area composed mostly of gneiss, phyllite and greenstone.
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The walls of the island feature characteristic multicolor bands of gneiss and granite layers.
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The southern three quarters of the region consists of metamorphic rock such as gneiss, schist, mica, and migmatite.
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The latter is for the most part a hornblende-biotite gneiss of sedimentary appearance.
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The mountain is mostly made up of the metamorphic rock, pink gneiss, which is quite evident as small boulders on the trail.
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The hoizon of the ore lie close to the contact of the gneiss with a red pegmatitic hornblende granite.
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Most of the island consists of gneiss, although the lighthouse was constructed of rock from a small granite quarry.
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The areas between individual belts are fault zones consisting of granite or granitic gneiss.
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Strontium isotope ratios of the leucogranite intrusives are distinct from that of the gneiss and associated leucosomes.
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With continued increase in metamorphic grade the sequence is phyllite, then schist and finally to gneiss.
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