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Definition of Tachylite
1. Noun. A basic or basalt glass.
Definition of Tachylite
1. Noun. (alternative form of tachylyte) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tachylite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tachylite
Literary usage of Tachylite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"Locality.—China, Cochin China, and Java. (D. and B.) tachylite, a mineral which
resembles obsidian, and has also been supposed to be similar to ..."
2. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Also tachylite is easily fusible under the blowpipe, while in the case of Obsidian
... In the majority of cases tachylite can be hardly said to constitute ..."
3. An Introduction to the Geology of Cape Colony by Arthur William Rogers (1905)
"Occasionally" an almost pure glass, tachylite, is found at the contact of a sheet
... tachylite is a black substance with a glassy appearance ; it looks not ..."
4. Progress Report by Geological Survey of Victoria, Family Planning Victoria (1884)
"... the term basalt all that retain a glassy base, and the name tachylite to
varieties where almost the whole of the material remains in the form of glass. ..."
5. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"tachylite is a basalt-glass, which is sometimes smoothly homogeneous and ...
tachylite sometimes occurs as a vesicular crust on certain basalt-lavas, ..."
6. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"tachylite is a basalt-glass, which is sometimes smoothly homogeneous and ...
tachylite sometimes occurs as a vesicular crust on certain basalt-lavas, ..."
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