Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphenes
Literary usage of Sphenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineral Resources of Minas Geraes (Brazil) by Albert Frederick Calvert (1915)
"... rose zircons, anatase, almandine garnets, white topazes, sphenes, native
silver, &c. The diamonds are small, the largest found being 5 carats. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"... together with small sphenes and garnet. It is full of crystalline calcite,
and has a skeleton crystal of pyrites. The former of these may well be ..."
3. Annual Report (new Series). by Geological Survey of Canada (1889)
"... regarded as cleavage in the largest sphenes found in many crystalline limestones
does not seem to have hitherto been observed in tho ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"There are also the usual sphenes and a little pyrites. Some later veins in this
rock are of interest, being composed of clear felspar, with needles of ..."
5. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"The Fish Canyon Tuff and the Mount Dromedary Complex sphenes were used for the
... The sphenes were attached with mica detectors and irradiated with thermal ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The finest of these gem sphenes are from Switzerland, the Tyrol, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania and Tilly Foster, New York. TITANIUM. ..."
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