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Sericite   Listen
noun
Sericite  n.  (Min.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... cliffs, about eighty feet in height at the highest point, were formed of vertically lying slate rocks—a very uniform series of phyllite and sericite-schist. At their base lay great clinging blocks of ice deeply excavated by the restless swell. One island was separated from the parent mass by a channel cut sheer to the deep blue water. Behind the main rocks and indenting the ice-cliff ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson



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