Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
porphyry .
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Examples
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Where these sedimentary rocks have quartz-porphyry, or feldspar-porphyry, associated with them the conditions seem favorable for the deposition of gold.
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In the Jerome or Verde district of central Arizona, folded pre-Cambrian greenstones and sediments were invaded by masses of quartz-porphyry, and after further deformation, rendering many of the rocks schistose, were intruded by an augite-diorite.
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Contact metamorphism along both the quartz-porphyry and the diorite contacts was practically lacking.
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Secondary strata, presenting a much smaller number of monocotyledonous plants; (a) Co-ordinate and almost contemporary formations with red sandstone (rothe todtes liegende), quartz-porphyry and fern-coal.
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The bed of the river furnished quite a collection of primitive rocks: there were pebbles of quartz, white, red, and grey; of granite; of sienite; of felspathic porphyry, hornblende, and quartz-porphyry; and of slate-rock.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Secondary strata, presenting a much smaller number of monocotyledonous plants; (a) Co-ordinate and almost contemporary formations with red sandstone (rothe todtes liegende), quartz-porphyry and fern-coal.
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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Granite, gneiss, | | | | | quartz-porphyry, | | | | | fire-clay, &c.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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