Definition of Albitic

1. Adjective. Of or related to albite feldspar.

Partainyms: Albite
Derivative terms: Albite

Definition of Albitic

1. albite [adj] - See also: albite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Albitic

albinic
albinisms
albinistic
albinoes
albinoid
albinoisms
albinos
albinotic
albinterferon
albinuria
albite
albites
albitic (current term)
albitical
albitise
albitised
albitises
albitization
albitizations
albitize
albitized
albitizes
albizia
albizias
albizzia
albizzias
albocinereous

Literary usage of Albitic

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

1. A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut by Charles Upham Shepard (1837)
"albitic. Cleavages stained with oxide of iron. Fairfield, Burr's quarry. ... 916 Granitic gneiss albitic. Mica white. Roxbury, Mine hill. albitic. ..."

2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"The analyses show that they are all strongly albitic rocks and resemble the muscovite-albite-granite of Grizzly Hill, Cal., 6, 2, except that they contain a ..."

3. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Many diabase sills of the Nipissing and Timiskaming districts cut Huronian argillites and show albitic facies with veins or dikes of sodic aplite or ..."

4. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1895)
"Little tongues of this fresh microcline penetrate the clastic feldspar grain, and little veins of the albitic feldspar also cross its corners. ..."

5. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"Diffusion coefficients calculated for albitic glass are slightly higher than those measured for silica glass by Stolper and Epstein (1991) and support the ..."

6. A System of Mineralogy: Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Including by James Dwight Dana (1850)
"... is confined mostly to albitic granite, and is usually associated with beryl. It occurs in Finland, both at Tamela and Kimito. In the Kimito tantalite, ..."

7. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Sir Henry A Miers, Henry A[lexander] Miers (1902)
"In the albitic granite of the Pike's Peak region beautiful large crystals of amazon- stone occur (Fig. 601); these are of the usual orthoclase habit, ..."

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