Phyllite, a schistose clay-rock, containing a variable proportion of quartz in grains, together with mica, usually chlorite, and sometimes many accessory minerals. The rock is more crystalline than clay-slate, and passes into mica-schist. The surfaces of the folia in phyllite are frequently finely wrinkled.
Phyllite
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 157
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