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Definition of Picrites
1. picrite [n] - See also: picrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picrites
Literary usage of Picrites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"Peridotites and picrites The serpentine rock which outcrops on lot 9 in the third
concession of Mann, and on the Frederick House river at the Three Portages ..."
2. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"Coloured varieties of augite occur in the picrites of the Western Isles of ...
The coloured augite of the picrites usually occurs in large irregular plates. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A small amount of basic plagioclase occurs in many picrites; apatite, iron oxides,
chromite and spinels are minor ingredients seldom altogether absent. ..."
4. Lithological Studies: A Description and Classification of the Rocks of the by Marshman Edward Wadsworth (1884)
"The cases in which higher percentages are found are apparently due to incorrect
analyses, or, in the main, to the picrites and two serpentines which are ..."
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