Greenstone
Green stone stands for the following rocks or minerals:
- Diabase , a weakly metamorphic basalt
- Glauconite , a common mineral in marine sediments
- Nephrite , a mineral mixture of calcium amphiboles
- Prasinite , a metamorphic rock
- Proterobas , a rock similar to diabase
- a color variant of the Anröchter stone , a natural limestone from Westphalia
The following geographical objects are called green stone:
Settlements:
- Grünstein (Gefrees) , district of the city of Gefrees , Bayreuth district, Bavaria
- Grünstein (Schwarzach) , district of the market Schwarzach , Straubing-Bogen district, Bavaria
Mountains:
- Grünstein (Watzmann) , mountain peak in the Berchtesgaden Alps
- Grünstein (Mieming chain) , mountain peak in the Mieming chain
Others:
- Grünstein castle ruins , in the district of the same name in the town of Gefrees in the Bayreuth district
- abandoned Grünstein Castle in the Upper Palatinate
Grünstein is the family name of the following people:
- Damian von Ritter zu Grünstein (1677–1742), Electorate of Mainz
- Herbert Grünstein (1912–1992), communist activist and later a high SED functionary
- Leo Grünstein (1876–1943), Austrian writer and art historian
- Rosa Grünstein (* 1948), German politician
See also
- Green earth
- Greenstone belt
- The green stone variant
- Grunstein , Greenstein
- Knight of Groenesteyn
- Grünenstein (disambiguation)
