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Definition of Diorites
1. diorite [n] - See also: diorite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diorites
Literary usage of Diorites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"diorites. THE diorites are plutonic rocks of medium to coarse texture, consisting
essentially of a soda-lime felspar and hornblende with less important ..."
2. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Secondly, for purposes of geological reasoning, it seemed fair to include the
quartz diorites, since these diorites are so often indissolubly connected in ..."
3. A Handbook of Rocks: For Use Without the Microscope by James Furman Kemp (1896)
"diorites are granitoid rocks consisting of hornblende, biotite and plagio- clase.
Those with hornblende are diorites proper, while those with biotite are ..."
4. A Handbook of Rocks, for Use Without the Microscope by James Furman Kemp (1900)
"diorites are granitoid rocks consisting of hornblende, biotite and plagio. clase.
Those with hornblende are diorites proper, while those with biotite are ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1899)
"Taking all these points into consideration, it has been deemed advisable to map
these rocks and diorites together, and distinguish them on the map by a ..."
6. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Biotite and pyroxene may be anhedral or subhedral. Porphyritic diorites commonly
carry phenocrysts of plagioclase, with smaller and fewer ..."
7. A Report on the Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia by Oliver Baker Hopkins (1914)
"A comparison of all the analyses of gabbros, diorites, hornblende schists and
hornblende gneisses quoted will reveal two significant facts: the small ..."
8. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"In this way the rock grades almost insensibly into the syenites, diorites, etc.
Variations also arise from the absence of one of the three leading minerals. ..."
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