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Definition of Augitic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or containing the mineral augite.
Definition of Augitic
1. a. Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Definition of Augitic
1. Adjective. Containing augite. ¹
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Definition of Augitic
1. augite [adj] - See also: augite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Augitic
Literary usage of Augitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"The surface of augitic porphyry is generally much acted upon by exposure to the
... Sometimes, augitic porphyry is vesicular, the drusy cavities containing ..."
2. Practical Geology and Mineralogy: With Instructions for the Qualitative by Joshua Trimmer (1842)
"Hence the usual division of lavas into trachytic and augitic or basaltic.
Trachyte is composed chiefly of glassy felspar, with crystals of the same mineral. ..."
3. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1869)
"One of them is of a pale green colour, crystallising in the prismatic system,
and presenting at once the formula of an augitic mineral and a crystalline ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... and by the action of this acid upon augitic tufa, thrown out and spread over
the sea-bottom, sulphite of magnesia was formed ; that this sulphite became ..."
5. A handy-book of rock names by George Henry Kinahan (1873)
"J. augitic Group. —Aggregates of felspar with pyroxene and ... The augitic group
includes all the basic volcanic rocks ; they may be compact, crystalline, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"The Trap or augitic Rocks, which form the next great division of the unstratified
or plutonic masses, are, it may be generally stated, composed of the two ..."
7. The History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"Plate II shows the general character of the augitic- looking enstatite. It is
clear in the main portion but traversed by fissures, along which is shown a ..."
8. A Treatise on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and by Edward Hull (1872)
"These .augitic rocks are, for the most part, of Tertiary or Recent age ; but they
... Generally, however, it may be affirmed that the augitic rocks are more ..."
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