Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light-colored volcanic rock composed largely of feldspars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by Klaproth to certain volcanic rocks of exceedingly variable and complex character, but closely related to the trachytes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, haüynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also
clinkstone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy a light-coloured
rock ofvolcanic origin composed mostly ofalkali feldspars
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Examples
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But they had also discovered a fine-grained green lava called phonolite twelve miles away near the small volcano of Engelosen.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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But they had also discovered a fine-grained green lava called phonolite twelve miles away near the small volcano of Engelosen.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Fashioned from fine-grained, green volcanic lava called phonolite, this is one of the best surviving examples of the hand-held cutting tools which were first made in Olduvai Gorge about
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I found a mass of crystals of the greenish volcanic glass, called olivine, imbedded in a piece of phonolite which looked as blue and fresh as if only quarried yesterday.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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They argue, from the amount of the chippings, that this mass of phonolite was quarried for ages by countless generations of men, and that the mountain top must have been upheaved, and the island inhabited, in a very remote past.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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The central mountain of this island is built of a heavy ferruginous basalt, but the shore ridges contain less iron, are more porous, and vary in their structure from a compact phonolite, to a ponderous basalt.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Not far off is a cave, a lava-bubble, in which the natives used to live when they came up here to quarry a very hard adjacent phonolite for their axes and other tools.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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The rock is phonolite, and is divided into irregular columns.
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The rock is phonolite, and is divided into irregular columns.
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