Definition of Staurolitic

1. a. Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Definition of Staurolitic

1. Adjective. (minerology) Of or relating to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite. ¹

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Definition of Staurolitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Staurolitic

staumrels
staunch
staunched
stauncher
staunches
staunchest
staunching
staunchly
staunchness
staunchnesses
staurikosaur
staurikosaurus
staurobaryte
staurolite
staurolites
staurolitic (current term)
stauroscope
stauroscopes
staurosporine
staurotide
staurotides
staus
stave
stave-rhyme
stave-rhymed
stave-rhymes
stave church
stave in
stave off
stave rhyme

Literary usage of Staurolitic

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

1. Annual Report (new Series).: Volume I-XVI...1885-1904 by Geological Survey of Canada (1898)
"Between Jordan Falls and this granitic mass the staurolitic strata are exposed for a ... The two sets of rocks, ie the quartzites and staurolitic slates, ..."

2. Geological Collections: Dynamical Geology and Petrography by William Otis Crosby (1892)
"We find here a good specimen of staurolitic schist, containing distinct cruciform ... Very similar to the staurolitic schists, and scarcely less abundant, ..."

3. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1911)
"The garnet layers are found in stringers and bands scattered widely at many horizons, but the staurolitic layers are fairly persistent and many of them may ..."

4. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1880)
"This staurolitic mica-schist, bed XIX, is more persistent in its lithological character than any other of the series, save, perhaps, the quartzite-marble ..."

5. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"It gives deep brown, highly dichroic sections which, if revolved over one nicol, change from deep brown to nearly white in color.6 The staurolitic ..."

6. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"... more basic rocks which bound them on the north and south; that the granitic rocks are divided into two portions by a belt of staurolitic mica-schist; ..."

7. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"... more basic rocks which bound them on the north and south; that the granitic rocks are divided into two portions by a belt of staurolitic mica-schist; ..."

8. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1898)
"Between Jordan Falls and this granitic mass the staurolitic strata are exposed for a ... The two sets of rocks, ie the quartzites and staurolitic slates, ..."

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