Congrès géologique international, Congrès géologique international… (1891)
“ That such tearing asunder of the inclusions is not the result of deformation of the rock after the matrix had crystallised, but before, while it was yet at least partially a magma, is proven by the absence of any such evidence, as is abundant in the Upper Archaean, of the deformation of the matrix in which the inclusions are embedded, and by the penetration of the gneiss into the remotest cracks and crannies of the shattered inclusion, which penetration could not have been effected had the matrix been a solid crystalline rock, without it suffering deformation. ”
