Lexicographical Neighbors of Megascopically
Literary usage of Megascopically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks: Based on Chemical and Mineral by Whitman Cross, Joseph Paxson Iddings, Louis Valentine Pirsson, Henry Stephens Washington (1902)
"Vitreous; vitro = megascopically vitreous ; vitri = microscopically vitreous.
... phenocrysts are not megascopically notable, or are quite insignificant. ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"... enough to be seen with the unaided eye, that is, megascopically.
Cryptocrystalline (aphanitic)—all sizes too small to be seen with the unaided eye. ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"Vitro = megascopically glassy; vitri = microscopically glassy. Either the mineral
or textural qualifiers may be placed next to the magmatic name according ..."
4. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"megascopically, the micas may be generally distinguished from other minerals by
... Members of the triclinic section are of no importance megascopically as ..."
5. The Fundamental Principles of Petrology by Ernst Weinschenk (1916)
"The appearance of a rock, that is its habit, depends upon the development and
arrangement of its constituents so far as these can be seen megascopically. ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Georgia (1901)
"The individual minerals are unrecognizable, megascopically. This rock differs
from the characteristic Georgia diabase, in the unusually small amount of ..."
7. A Preliminary Report on the Upper Gold Belt of Alabama: In the Counties of by William M. Brewer, Eugene Allen Smith, George Wesson Hawkes, Julius Morgan Clements, Alfred Hulse Brooks (1896)
"megascopically, this is a pale green rock, on the fresh fracture of which the
... megascopically, the rock is of light green color, and much resembles the ..."
8. Report of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, 1897-1899 by John Grimes Walker, Peter Conover Hains, Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt, Arthur Powell Davis, Boyd Ehle, S. S. Evans, L. Hankins, Stephen Harris, Charles Willard Hayes, Andrew Onderdonk, Francis Lee Stuart, H. H. Trundle, Ebenezer Smith Wheeler (1899)
"megascopically : Nearly black pitchstone, showing small phenocrysts of feldspar.
... megascopically : Dark grey vesicular, glassy rock of andesitic aspect. ..."
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