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