greenstone

greenstone
a) any of several green-hued minerals used for making various artefacts in early Mesoamerican cultures, e.g. greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, or chrysoprase
b) the green-hued minerals of New Zealand used by Māori to make tools, ornaments and weapons (any of three varieties of nephrite jade or one variety of bowenite)

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  • Greenstone — is a name given to several different types of minerals.* Pounamu, a form of green nephrite jade found in New Zealand and Australia * Chlorastrolite * Greenschist * Greenstone (archaeology), a type of stone used by early cultures, particularly in… …   Wikipedia

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  • 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Greenstone —   [ griːnstəʊn], Petrologie: englische Bezeichnung für Grünstein …   Universal-Lexikon

  • greenstone — [grēn′stōn΄] n. any of various altered basic igneous rocks having a dark green color …   English World dictionary

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  • Greenstone belt — Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green hue… …   Wikipedia

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