Definition of Diabasic

1. diabase [adj] - See also: diabase

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabasic

dhuti
dhutis
dhyana
di(2-chloroethyl)sulfide
di-
di-amelia
di-iodotyrosine
di-pimethane rearrangement
di di mau
di ex machina
di ex machinis
dia-
diabase
diabases
diabasic (current term)
diabaterial
diabatic
diabatically
diabatization
diabesity
diabetes
diabetes and fibre
diabetes innocens
diabetes insipidus
diabetes intermittens
diabetes mellitus
diabetes related peptide
diabetic
diabetic acidosis

Literary usage of Diabasic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"18^ is a photograph of the typical diabasic facies, being specimen No. ... («) Showing the basaltic (specimen 38) and (<$) true diabasic (specimen 24) ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"For purposes of mapping, the writer divides the igneous series into four groups: 1. The diabasic rocks. 2. The dioritic group. 3. The granitic group. 4. ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"The cliffs of the New England trap-ridges show equally little progress towards the more conservative forms of middle life. September,. THE diabasic SCHISTS ..."

4. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"He has found the rock to vary from a coarse gabbro to a diabasic type, and to vary also in mineralogical constitution, becoming in places very rich in ..."

5. The Geology of the Fox Islands, Maine: A Contribution to the Study of Old by George Otis Smith (1896)
"... diabasic AND GRANITIC INTRUSIVES. AREAL DISTIBUTION. In addition to the dikes of igneous rock which have been injected into the older rocks, ..."

6. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1906)
"... account is rather slight, because the thin sections of many of the rocks have not yet arrived. I. diabasic Rocks. These form three large masses near ..."

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