Crossword-Solution: DOLERITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dolerite | n. | A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt. |
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| DOLERITE | anagram | LOITERED |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DOLERITE”
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| dark basic intrusive igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar and a pyroxene, such as augite | 1 answer |
| DARK igneous rock | 4 answers |
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Sentences with DOLERITE (5)
Professor Gustavus Rose, to whom I submitted specimens of this dike, found it to be dolerite, and composed of greenish black augite and Labrador feldspar, the latter being the most abundant ingredient.
They form a set of dikes of a fine-grained dark greenstone or dolerite, composed of feldspar and pyroxene, with occasional scales of mica and grains of pyrites.
Columnar Dolerite is seen surmounting a sedimentary series partly buried in the talus-slope An outcrop of a sedimentary formation containing bands of coal projecting through the talus slope below the columnar dolerite at Horn Bluff The face of a granite outcrop near penguin point.
Primitive formations are nowhere seen above ground; we find only what belongs unquestionably to volcanoes: feldspar-lava, dolerite, basalt, conglomerated scoriae, tufa, and pumice-stone.
Feldspar with a basis of souda (compact feldspar) forms, with diallage, the euphotide and serpentine; with pyroxene, dolerite and basalt; and with garnet, eclogyte.