Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mineral variety of andalusite with carbonaceous impurities regularly arranged along the longer axis of the crystal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of andalusite, peculiar in the tessel-lated appearance which it presents when cut transversely and polished. The dark portions are due to symmetrically arranged impurities in the crystal. Also called
macle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of andalusite; -- called also
macle . The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.
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- noun mineralogy An
aluminosilicate mineral havingcarbon inclusions , a variety ofandalusite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The rocks consist of a clay-slate, with crystals resembling chiastolite and crystals of sulphide of iron interspersed.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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I have seen fine specimens of the chiastolite (macle) which the Indians wore as amulets and which came from the Sierra Nevada de Merida.
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[* In Galicia, in Spain, I saw the thonschiefer containing chiastholite alternate with grauwacke; but the chiastolite unquestionably belongs also to rocks which all geologists have hitherto called primitive rocks, to mica-schists intercalated like layers in granite, and to an independent stratum of mica-slate.] 3.
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I could discover no fragmentary stratum (grauwacke) nor kieselschiefer nor chiastolite.
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The sub-groups of this system are in the following succession upwards: - 1, hornblende slate; 2, chiastolite slate; 3, clay slate; 4, Snowdon rocks, (grawacke and conglomerates;) 5, Bala limestone; 6, Plynlymmon rocks, (grawacke and grawacke slates, with beds of conglomerates.)
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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(* In Galicia, in Spain, I saw the thonschiefer containing chiastholite alternate with grauwacke; but the chiastolite unquestionably belongs also to rocks which all geologists have hitherto called primitive rocks, to mica-schists intercalated like layers in granite, and to an independent stratum of mica-slate.) 3.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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I could discover no fragmentary stratum (grauwacke) nor kieselschiefer nor chiastolite.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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I have seen fine specimens of the chiastolite (macle) which the Indians wore as amulets and which came from the Sierra Nevada de Merida.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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