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Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete

Note 17 — Chapter VI · PLUTONIC AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS:—CLEAVAGE AND FOLIATION.

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The clay-slate in this island was in many places crossed by parallel smooth joints. Out of five cases, the angle of intersection between the strike of these joints and that of the cleavage-laminæ was in two cases 45° and in two others 79°.

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