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Definition of Amphibolites
1. amphibolite [n] - See also: amphibolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphibolites
Literary usage of Amphibolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"The paper closed with a short account of some of these amphibolites. The author
first gave a short account of the investigations which have bees made on ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The amphibolites are typical rocks of the ... The sedimentary amphibolites or
para-amphibolites, les common than those above described, are frequent in scri ..."
3. The Geology of Belgium and the French Ardennes by Geologists' Association, Jules Auguste Alexandre Gosselet, Thomas George Bonney, Aimé Louis Rutot, Ernest van den Broeck, William Topley (1885)
"(3) The amphibolites—these may be briefly described as rather compact greenstones,
sometimes exhibiting a decidedly slaty or schistose structure, ..."
4. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"The mode is similar in the pyroxenites and in certain amphibolites. In other
amphibolites, the corundum is irregularly disseminated in grains, plates, ..."
5. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1903)
"Regarding the amphibolites, the evidence is less conclusive. ... These facts
concerning the amphibolites, added to their probable lower content of lime and ..."
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