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Page 97
... Tuffose . The sandstones are more often argillous , fel- spathic , micaceous , and tuffose , than the grits . Of structural subvarieties there are ( i . ) Pebbly , ( j . ) Cleaved , ( k . ) Oblique or Obliquely foliated , ( 1 ...
... Tuffose . The sandstones are more often argillous , fel- spathic , micaceous , and tuffose , than the grits . Of structural subvarieties there are ( i . ) Pebbly , ( j . ) Cleaved , ( k . ) Oblique or Obliquely foliated , ( 1 ...
Page 102
... tuffose particles ; usually it appears to be more or less associated with bedded or stratified igneous rocks . Lateryte may be very ferruginous , even so as to be classed as an Earthy Limonite . In Antrim , Ire- land , associated with ...
... tuffose particles ; usually it appears to be more or less associated with bedded or stratified igneous rocks . Lateryte may be very ferruginous , even so as to be classed as an Earthy Limonite . In Antrim , Ire- land , associated with ...
Page 119
... Tuffose , Shaly , Slaty , Geodic , Cellular , or Porous , if any of these structures extend over a considerable portion of the rock and give it a marked character . k . Lithographyte , Lithographic Stone [ Gr . lithos , a stone , and ...
... Tuffose , Shaly , Slaty , Geodic , Cellular , or Porous , if any of these structures extend over a considerable portion of the rock and give it a marked character . k . Lithographyte , Lithographic Stone [ Gr . lithos , a stone , and ...
Page 121
... Tuffose ; they being analogous to the previously described varieties of limestone . It weathers into o . Dolomitic sand . NOTE . - Cotta appears to be of opinion that Dolomyte is never politic . This however seems erroneous , as among ...
... Tuffose ; they being analogous to the previously described varieties of limestone . It weathers into o . Dolomitic sand . NOTE . - Cotta appears to be of opinion that Dolomyte is never politic . This however seems erroneous , as among ...
Page 139
... Tuffose Limestone Underclay Grit ... Roofing Slate Stinkstone Rubbly Felstone Argillous Boulder - clay Drift Pumiceous Tufa ... Basanyte Liperyte Pumiceous Tufa Peat ... Fire - clay ... Turf Vegetable Mould ...... Soil Ophyte Verd ...
... Tuffose Limestone Underclay Grit ... Roofing Slate Stinkstone Rubbly Felstone Argillous Boulder - clay Drift Pumiceous Tufa ... Basanyte Liperyte Pumiceous Tufa Peat ... Fire - clay ... Turf Vegetable Mould ...... Soil Ophyte Verd ...
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aggregate of quartz amphibole Amygdaloidal appear Arenaceous Argillous Augyte basic beds Bituminous Breccia Calcareous called Carbonaceous Chloritic classed clay coal colour compact Concretionary conglomerate Conglomeritic constituents containing Cotta crystalline crystals Cupriferous deposited Derivate rocks Diabase Dioryte Dolomitic drift dykes earth elvanyte Euryte felsitic felspar felspathic felstone Ferruginous Fibrous fissile foliation formed gneiss Gneissoid gneissyte granite granitoid granityte granular grit Group Hematitic Hornblendic igneous rocks ingenite rocks intrusive granite Ireland Jukes labradorite lamination latter layers less Lignyte limestone marcasite marl mass matrix metamorphic metamorphosed mica Micaceous minerals Nodular occur oligoclase oligoclase granite Ophyte orthoclase passage-rock Plutonic rocks Porphyritic Protogene pyrite pyroxene quartz Quartzose quartzyte reddish Ribaned ripidolite sand sandstone schist schistose sedimentary rocks shale siliceous slate slaty sometimes Spheroidal Steatyte Structural Varieties Subgroup Subvar Subvarieties surface Syenyte talc Talcose texture Trachyte tuff Tuffose turf usually Varieties in Composition veins of segregation Vesicular Volcanic weather Whinstone