Gneiss (disambiguation)
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock
It may also refer to:
Places
- Baltimore Gneiss, a Precambrian geological formation in the Piedmont region of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
- Gneiss Hills, two prominent hills at the west side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands
- Gneiss Lake, a small lake on the west side of the Gneiss Hills in the south portion of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula
- Gneiss Point, a rocky point near Marble Point, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Granite and Gneiss Plateau, one of the five major landscapes in Austria
- Narryer Gneiss Terrane, a geological complex in Western Australia
- Port Deposit Gneiss, a Paleozoic gneiss formation in Harford County, Maryland
- Western Gneiss Region, a large geological unit in Norway chiefly made of gneiss rock
Others
- Gneiss-2, the first Soviet produced airborne radar system, introduced in 1942
- Knot Gneiss, a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony
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