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Definition of Greenstone

Greenstone
Greenstone Green"stone` (gr[=e]n"st[=o]n`), n. [So called from a tinge of green in the color.] (Geol.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

Meaning of Greenstone from wikipedia

- Look up greenstone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Greenstone may refer to: Greenstone (archaeology), various types of stone used by early cultures...
- Greenstone is a suite of software tools for building and distributing digital library collections on the Internet or CD-ROM. It is open-source, multilingual...
- Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with ****ociated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean...
- Greenstone is a single-tier muni****lity in the Canadian province of Ontario with a po****tion of 4,636 according to the 2016 Canadian census. It stretches...
- are misleading, such as New Zealand jade (not all pounamu is jade) and greenstone (a generic term used for unrelated stone from many countries). Pounamu...
- The Barberton Greenstone Belt is a geologic formation situated on the eastern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa. It is known for its gold mineralisation...
- Greenstone is a common generic term for valuable, green-hued minerals and metamorphosed igneous rocks and stones which early cultures used in the fashioning...
- Chlorastrolite, also known as Isle Royale Greenstone, is a green or bluish green stone. Chlorastrolite has finely radiating or stellate (for examples,...
- Michael Greenstone is an American economist and the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School of...
- The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB; Inuktitut: [nuv.vu.a.git.tuq]) is a sequence of metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic and ****ociated sedimentary...