Crossword-Solution: DIORITE 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.

But a rival, of Solutr]/e, told the tribe my style was _outr]/e_ -- 'Neath a tomahawk of diorite he fell.

Geologically the Andes are yet in a chaotic and formative condition; huge slides of Silurian slates and diorite are of frequent occurrence.

This extraordinary document is a black diorite block 8 feet high, once containing 21 columns on the obverse, 16 and 28 columns on the reverse, with 2540 lines of writing of which now 1114 remain, and surmounted by the figure of the king receiving the law from the Sun-god.

Admitting then that gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c., were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? That such extensive areas do exist cannot be doubted: the granitic region of Parime is described by Humboldt as being at least nineteen times as large as Switzerland.