CHAPTER VI.

PLUTONIC AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS:—CLEAVAGE AND FOLIATION.

Brazil, Bahia, gneiss with disjointed metamorphosed dikes.—Strike of

foliation.—Rio de Janeiro, gneiss-granite, embedded fragment in,

decomposition of.—La Plata, metamorphic and old volcanic rocks of.—S.

Ventana.—Claystone porphyry formation of Patagonia; singular

metamorphic rocks; pseudo-dikes.—Falkland Islands, palaeozoic fossils

of.—Tierra del Fuego, clay-slate formation, cretaceous fossils of;

cleavage and foliation; form of land.—Chonos Archipelago, mica-schists,

foliation disturbed by granitic axis; dikes.—Chiloe.—Concepcion, dikes,

successive formation of.—Central and Northern Chile.—Concluding remarks

on cleavage and foliation.—Their close analogy and similar

origin.—Stratification of metamorphic schists.—Foliation of intrusive

rocks.—Relation of cleavage and foliation to the lines of tension

during metamorphosis.

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