Others, as " Pseudolaelia vellozicola ", are semi-epiphytes and can be found on mat-like communities of " Vellozia " bushes on inselbergs ( dome-shaped granitic or gneissic rock outcrops ) in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, requiring an adaptation to the extreme environmental conditions ( dryness, isolation)
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It is a long paleosuture that separates the more than 3, 000-million-year-old Archean gneissic terrane to the south & ndash; Minnesota River Valley subprovince & ndash; from the 2, 700-million-year-old Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane to the north & ndash; Wawa Subprovince of the Superior province.
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Examples include the bands in gneiss ( gneissic banding ), a preferred orientation of planar " large " mica flakes in schist ( Schistocity ), the preferred orientation of " small " mica flakes in phyllite ( with its planes having a silky sheen, called " phylitic luster "-the Greek word, " phyllon ", also means " leaf " ), the extremely fine grained preferred orientation of clay flakes in slate ( called " slaty cleavage " ), and the layers of flattened, smeared, pancake-like clasts in metaconglomerate.
