Crossword-Solution: DOLOMIEU 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Consult also Dolomieu “Voyage aux Isles Lipari” and D’Aubuisson “Traite de Geogn.” tome 2 page 534.) of the trachytic regions in the Italian islands, agree with my observations at Ascension.

Dolomieu (“Voyage aux Isles de Lipari” pages 35 and 85.) also states, that the grey lavas of the modern cone of Vulcano, which have a vitreous texture, are streaked with parallel white lines: he further describes a solid pumice-stone which possesses a fissile structure, like that of certain micaceous schists.

Although it is easy to perceive, why each separate air-cell, or each fibre in pumice-stone (Dolomieu “Voyage” page 64.), should be drawn out in the direction of the moving mass; it is by no means at first obvious why such air-cells and fibres should be arranged by the movement, in the same planes, in laminae absolutely straight and parallel to each other, and often of extreme tenuity; and still less obvious is it, why such layers should come to be of slightly different composition and of different textures.

Dolomieu, had cause to repent his mission, which occasioned him to be badly treated by the Sicilians.

Dolomieu[43] also states, that the grey lavas of the modern cone of Vulcano, which have a vitreous texture, are streaked with parallel white lines: he further describes a solid pumice-stone which possesses a fissile structure, like that of certain micaceous schists.