Definition of Elvans

1. elvan [n] - See also: elvan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elvans

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

Literary usage of Elvans

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

1. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"The tin and copper veins near Tavistock have nearly the same direction as the elvans and general run of granitic matter of Kit Hill. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Among the finest rocks of this class in Britain are the porphyritic granites of Cornwall and of Shap in Westmoreland ; the elvans, or quartz- porphyries ..."

3. The Geological Observer by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1851)
"They are to the granites of this part of Ireland what the elvans of Devon ... The elvans of Wicklow and Wexford can be well studied, not only inland but on ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The veins are generally a compound of felspar and quartz. elvans. ... The elvans have almost the same chemical and mineralogical composition as the granites ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1878)
"... composition of which differs very materially from that of the majority of the Cornish elvans; and although it has been briefly noticed by Mr. AK Barnett ..."

6. Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners ; with Sketches of Scenery ; Designed as a by John R. Leifchild (1855)
"Crantock church is built of lere it hardens by exposure, and ancient stone coffins are of the same material. GRANITE VEINS IN CLAY-SLATES, elvans, ..."

7. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina by North Carolina State Geologist (1856)
"... Vein— Vicinity of elvans—Passage of a Vein from one Rock to another—Condition of the Watts of a Vein. § 109. The contents of a vein is often found to ..."

8. Observations on the West of England Mining Region: Being an Account of the by Joseph Henry Collins (1912)
"... ON THE RELATIVE AGES OF THE elvans AND LODES THE periods of granitic intrusion must necessarily have been periods of heating and consequent expansion, ..."

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