A Handy-Book of Rock Names, with Brief Descriptions of the Rocks |
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A Handy Book of Rock Names: With Brief Descriptions of the Rocks (1873) G. Henry Kinahan No preview available - 2008 |
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aggregate of quartz amphibole Amygdaloidal appear Arenaceous Argillous Augyte basic Breccia Calcareous Carbonaceous Chloritic clay cloth coal colour compact concretionary Conglomeritic constituents contains Cotta Crown 8vo crystalline crystals Cupriferous derivate rocks Diabase Dioryte Dolomyte dykes elvanyte Euryte F.R.S. Illustrated felsitic felspar felspathic felstone Ferruginous fissile foliation formed gneiss Gneissoid Gneissyte granite granitoid granityte granular greenish Hematitic Hornblendic igneous rocks ingenite rocks intrusive granite Ireland Jukes labradorite Lankester latter less limestone marcasite mass matrix mealy metamorphic metamorphosed mica mica-schist micaceous Microscopic minerals Nodular occur oligoclase oligoclase granite Ophyte orthoclase passage-rock plates Plutonic rocks porphyritic Protogene pyrite pyroxene quartz quartzitic Quartzose R. A. Proctor reddish Ribaned ripidolite sand sandstone schist Schistoid schistose Sedges sedimentary rocks shale siliceous slate slaty sometimes spheroidal Steatyte Structural Varieties Subgroup Subvar subvarieties surface Syenyte talc Talcose texture Trachyte tuff Tuffose usually Varieties in Composition veins vesicular volcanic rocks weather Whinstone