Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gabbro .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called
gabbro .
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- noun mineralogy A
rock occurring in the Alps, consisting ofsaussurite andsmaragdite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the latter formation of euphotide which, by its mixture with diorite, is itself linked with hyperthenite, in which real beds of serpentine are sometimes developed in Scotland and in
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The secondary formations on the east of the Havannah are pierced in a singular manner by syenitic and euphotide rocks united in groups.
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Amazon-stone come from the rocks of euphotide, which form the last member of the series of primitive rocks?
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Upper Orinoco in the hands of the Indians, seems to indicate the existence of a soil of euphotide, superposed on gneiss-granite, or amphibolic slate, in the eastern part of the Sierra Parime.
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The soil is covered with secondary and tertiary formations, formed by some rocks of gneiss-granite, syenite and euphotide.
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A curious geognostic discovery remains to be made in the eastern part of America, that of finding in a primitive soil a rock of euphotide containing the piedra de Macagua.
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Feldspar with a basis of souda (compact feldspar) forms, with diallage, the euphotide and serpentine; with pyroxene, dolerite and basalt; and with garnet, eclogyte.
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It is easy to distinguish two formations in the euphotide; one is destitute of amphibole, even when it alternates with amphibolic rocks
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The rocks chiefly relied on as evidence of this distribution consist of three varieties of granite, besides gneiss, chlorite-slate, euphotide, serpentine, and a peculiar kind of conglomerate, all of them foreign alike to the great Strath between the Alps and Jura and to the structure of the Jura itself.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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It is the latter formation of euphotide which, by its mixture with diorite, is itself linked with hyperthenite, in which real beds of serpentine are sometimes developed in Scotland and in Norway.
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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