“Cross-cutting dykes are folded, partly transposed or boudinaged in the gneissose foliation.”

“In Brittany a gneissose and schistose igneous series lies at the base of the pre-Cambrian.”

“Post-Grenville deformation affecting the Armagh Gneiss Complex is heterogeneous but involves partial to complete recrystallization of the Grenville gneissose foliation.”

“Scattered throughout the Pena Negra migmatites there are small bodies of Upper Proterozoic gneissic granodiorite and granite.”

“The serpentinized harzburgite has a gneissic fabric shown by the orientation of the bastite pseudomorphs after orthopyroxene, typical of sub-ophiolitic upper mantle.”

“Most of the intrusion comprises a coarse-grained, pink gneissic granite containing numerous augen of recrystallized perthitic orthoclase up to 1.25 cm across.”