Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: schists
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ɪsts]
Usage examples
  • Schists may contain rolled-out pebbles, showing their derivation from a conglomerate.
  • MICA SCHIST, the most common of schists, and in fact of all metamorphic rocks, is composed of mica and quartz in alternating wavy folia.
  • THE CRYSTALLINE SCHISTS, representing the finer types of foliation, consist of thin, parallel, crystalline leaves, which are often remarkably crumpled.