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Definition of Chamosite
1. Noun. A greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum.
Definition of Chamosite
1. Noun. (minerology) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamosite
Literary usage of Chamosite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868: Descriptive Mineralogy by James Dwight Dana, Edward Salisbury Dana (1920)
"chamosite, as originally described, occurs compact or oolitic, ... chamosite forms
thick beds of rather limited extent in a limestone containing ammonites, ..."
2. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"This bed here consists of oolitic red hematite up to 5 meters in thickness, but
is elsewhere a poor blackish gray oolitic chamosite (a water-bearing ..."
3. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1916)
"These spherules are composed of alternating concentric layers of hematite and
chamosite, which were pierced by living boring algse. ..."
4. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1919)
"Near the surface the chamosite is altered to limonite. In the upper part of
horizon " D " also ... The upper bed is extensive and consists of chamosite and ..."
5. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"chamosite is usually oolite or compact, ... chamosite is said to fuse easily,
... A bed 60 ft. thick of chamosite and ..."
6. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1919)
"In the same section there are sharply defined beds of oolitic chamosite which,
as is the case with the gray oolite at Clinton, ..."
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