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• Pansies are still poking their little facies around every mailbox and birdbath forsythia is blooming, too!1997 April 17, Joyce Lowe, “Sedley”, in The Tidewater News, 91st year, number 62, Franklin, Va., page B3, column 1. From the entry facie
• Vent facies on the north and eastern sides of Fish Lake are mostly flows and breccias of andesite and rhyodacite.2016 February 18, “Three Millennia of Southwestern North American Dustiness and Future Implications”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry rhyodacite
• The Yuli Belt is dominantly composed of greenschist facies, often highly carbonaceous quartz-mica schists with blocks of metabasites up to blueschist facies (Fig. 2).2019, Zhang Yiqiong et al., “The Yuli Belt in Taiwan: Part of the suture zone separating Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates”, in…. From the entry Wanjung
• In the Apennines and the southern Alps, the “scaglia cinerea” and certain “scaglia rossa” facies correspond to metaflysch or cryptoflysch, and so on.2013, Jean Aubouin, Geosynclines, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry cryptoflysch
• On present evidence it seems that the Bacsonian is simply a late facies of the Hoabinhian, since it ended at roughly the same time.2004, Peter S. Bellwood, Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, page 180. From the entry Bacsonian
• Although both the facies mentioned above may have formed in paleodeserts, the metallic minerals and the petroleum were introduced subsequently, after burial and during diagenesis.1985, Peter Laznicka, Empirical metallogeny: depositional environments, lithologic associations and metallic ores. From the entry paleodesert
• Whilst there is some credit in distinguishing between taphonomies for thick-shelled forms and thin-shelled forms in shallower facies, these forms occur in both phacopids and homalonotids.2005, Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Volume 62, Museums Board of Victoria, page 10. From the entry taphonomy
• This cenozone is about 30 m thick (Subathu Section) and consists of greenish grey, calcareous splintery shales which may change to pale olive green shale facies in other sections.1981, The Palaeobotanist - Volumes 28-29, page 395. From the entry cenozone
• The features are restricted to the gray unit of the upper member and nearly all of the well-developed pseudochannels are in the gray facies and the gray sandstone.1949, Harry Clifford Granger, Robert Bruce Raup, “Stratigraphy of the Dripping Spring Quartzite, Southeastern Arizona”, in Geological…. From the entry pseudochannel
• Both the endmembers, epidote and clinozoisite, form the epidote sequence, in which part of the aluminium is progressively replaced by Fe³⁺; epidote is a typical mineral of the greenschist facies.1997, H. Pichler, C. Schmitt-Riegraf, translated by L. Hoke, Rock-forming Minerals in Thin Section, London: Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, section…. From the entry endmember

Meaning of facies

1. noun General appearance.
2. noun Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
3. noun A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.

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How do you use facies in a sentence?

Facies is used as a noun. For example: “The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.”

What is a short sentence with facies?

“Pansies are still poking their little facies around every mailbox and birdbath forsythia is blooming, too!”

What does facies mean?

Facies means general appearance.