Crossword-Solution: APLITE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Fine-grained granite 1 answer
Light-colored granite. 1 answer
type of igneous rock 6 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
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greedy person
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There is one very beautiful specimen of shining white, fine-grained granite aplite, with small, pale red garnets.
The South Pole, Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 2002
The former deposits contain arsenopyrite and copper-bearing pyrite impregnating a mica-quartz-schist, adjacent to and in apparent genetic relation with aplite or pegmatite intrusives.
The Economic Aspect of Geology C. K. Leith 2009
Dykes and threads of aplite are very frequently to be observed traversing granitic bosses; they occur also, though in less numbers, in syenites, diorites, quartz-diabases and gabbros.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 Various 2010
Less frequently aplite forms stocks or bosses, or occupies the edges or irregular portions of the interior of outcrops of granite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 Various 2010
These have very much the same composition as acid igneous rocks such as granite, aplite, hornblende granite, or intermediate rocks such as syenite and quartz diorite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 Various 2011
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–1998).