Killas is a Cornish mining term for metamorphic rock strata of sedimentary origin which was altered regionally by the Variscan orogeny and then locally by heat from the intruded granites in the English counties of Devon and Cornwall. The term is used in both counties.[1]
- ^ Cornwall Geoconservation Group (2023). "Killas". Cornish Geology. Retrieved 4 January 2023.