Crossword-Solution: DIABASE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diabase | n. | A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. |
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| greenstone | 3 answers |
| DARK igneous rock | 4 answers |
| Igneous rock. | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DIABASE (5)
Juvat, in Brittany), _Calyptræa, Hipponyx, Nerita, Erato, Oliva, Ancillaria,_ and _ Fasciolaria._ These tuffs of the southern shores of the Grand Canary, containing the Upper Miocene shells, appear to be about the same age as the most ancient volcanic rocks of the island, composed of slaty diabase, phonolite, and trachyte.
Between the horseshoe and the outer circle another circle of diabase stones is sometimes said to have existed, but very little of it now remains.
They are holocrystalline in form and true glassy bases are rare, rendering the term diabase more appropriate than basalt.
While the diabase dikes are most prominent in the Newark rocks, they are also found occasionally in the other terraces.
The diabase of the Newark areas is almost exclusively confined to the red sandstone, and the dike at Leesburg cutting the limestone conglomerate is almost the only occurrence of that combination.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).