Definition of Lenticules

1. lenticule [n] - See also: lenticule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenticules

lenticular galaxy
lenticular ganglion
lenticular image
lenticular loop
lenticular nucleus
lenticular papillae
lenticular process of incus
lenticular progressive degeneration
lenticular syphilid
lenticularis
lenticularly
lenticulars
lenticule
lenticules (current term)
lenticulo-optic
lenticulopapular
lenticulostriate
lenticulostriate arteries
lenticulothalamic
lenticulus
lentiform
lentiform bone
lentiform nucleus
lentigines
lentiginose
lentiginosis
lentiginous

Literary usage of Lenticules

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

1. The Ore Deposits of South Africa: With a Chapter on Hints to Prospectors by J P Johnson (1908)
"In this mica-schist is an interbedded string of quartzite lenticules with a ... It is in the hanging wall of these quartzite lenticules that the copper ..."

2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1892)
"The concentric layers of the lenticules consist of alternations of silica and ... If these lenticules were originally of calcite they must have been altered ..."

3. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1905)
"About a !;foot north from this is a quartz vein made up of small lenticules. Near the mouth of the tunnel is a vertical shaft measuring 29 feet in depth, ..."

4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1905)
"The quartz lenticules, of a totally different type to those occurring in ... From stone shown to me, it appears that the quartz lenticules must be very rich ..."

5. The Copper Mines of the World by Walter Harvey Weed (1907)
"... schist consists principally of very thin lenticules and minute bands of quartz, much broken up, and separated by thin foliations of mica. ..."

6. Pennsylvania Glaciation, First Phase: Materials for a Discussion of the by Edward Higginson Williams (1917)
"Very fine interstratified quicksands and fine sands with sandy clay lenticules. The sands are perfectly assorted and without inclusions; ..."

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