Definition of Elvanite

1. elvan [n -S] - See also: elvan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elvanite

elutriator
elutriators
eluvia
eluvial
eluviate
eluviated
eluviates
eluviating
eluviation
eluviations
eluvium
eluviums
eluxated
eluxation
elvan
elvanite (current term)
elvanites
elvans
elve
elven
elver
elvers
elves
elvish
elvishly
elwand
elwands
elyite
elysian
elysium

Literary usage of Elvanite

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

1. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1877)
"The following analysis disproves this supposition, but shows the rock to be a most interesting elvanite, as it consists of albite and quartz, ..."

2. A guide to geology by John Phillips (1864)
"It occurs in contemporaneous veins, or segregated masses, in ordinary granite, as at Dalkey. Specific gravity as granite. DIA. 17. elvanite, with crystals ..."

3. Journal (1877)
"THIS specimen of elvanite, or Whitestone, was given to mo by Mr. Robert W. Armstrong, of the Belleek Pottery Works, and was supposed to contain a large ..."

4. New South Wales: Its Progress Nad Resources by Philadelphia (Lydia), New South Wales, 1876 Centennial exhibition (1894)
"... elvanite).—Extremely fine-grained, nearly dense rock, with imperfect slaty cleavage, consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, ..."

5. Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts by William Otis Crosby (1880)
"The most of this elvanite is as destitute of stratification, apparently, as the granite ... This is the view of the relations of the Blue Hill elvanite ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"Thin parallel veins of elvanite are often bounded at either side by a thin layer of semi-transparent sub-crystalline quartz, possibly the result of ..."

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