Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock. Layers of dark and light minerals stripe the rock, and sometimes it is possible to see how the direction of pressure deep in the Earth changed as the minerals formed.
Keaton [keaton] as a boys' name is pronounced KEE-ton. It is of English origin, and the meaning of Keaton is place of hawks. Actors Michael Keaton, Buster Keaton. Associated with: hawks (eagle).
A craton (/ËkreÉªtÉn/ , /ËkraetÉn/ , ËkrÃ¦tÉn /or/ ; ËkreÉªtÉn From: greek ÎºÏÎ¬ÏÎ¿Ï kratos) strength is an old and stable part of the continental. lithospherehe word craton was first proposed by the Austrian geologist Leopold Kober in 1921 as Kratogen, referring to stable continental platforms, and orogen as a term for mountain or orogenic belts.