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Definition of Biotitic

1. Adjective. Relating to or involving biotite.

Definition of Biotitic

1. biotite [adj] - See also: biotite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biotitic

Literary usage of Biotitic

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

1. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1913)
"REPLACING BIOTITE AND QUARTZ IN A biotitic QUARTZITE, BLACKBIRD DISTRICT. Very small grains bunched in poorly defined lenticular areas. ..."

2. History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts by Wilson Waters, Henry Spaulding Perham (1917)
"There is also another biotitic granitoid gneiss which is probably of purely igneous origin, and which may or may not be closely associated with the first ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... biotitic and hornblende gneisses, exactly like those of acidic constitution which enclose the above supposed dike. Indeed, a basic element, ..."

4. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"biotitic hornblende granite, No. 77.—Large dikes of this granite traverse ... biotitic hornblende granite, No. 79.—Very similar to the last and evidently ..."

5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"WO Crosby,\ has had an opportunity to examine a number of specimens of a disintegrated biotitic granite from Colorado, which seem to throw- considerable ..."

6. Geology of the City of New York: With Numerous Illustrations and Maps by Louis Pope Gratacap (1909)
"This alteration forms "a purely biotitic gneiss or schist, ... Through its great plasticity this biotitic or micaceous gneiss often bends about and incloses ..."

7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1903)
"Through its great plasticity this biotitic or micaceous gneiss often bends about and incloses the bunches of less altered hornblende gneiss in a manner ..."

8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... and biotitic schist. The granites at Niantic and Westerly, EI, and at New London, Millstone Point, Stony Creek and some minor localities in Connecticut ..."

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