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Definition of Dolerites
1. dolerite [n] - See also: dolerite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolerites
Literary usage of Dolerites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"The ancient dolerites have usually undergone internal changes and such rocks are
often called diabases. While the use of the term has not been uniform, ..."
2. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"dolerites. THE larger intrusive bodies of hypabyssal ... The dolerites occur as
large dykes, sills, ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"Generally speaking the basic volcanic rocks are composed of massive dolerites
and fine-grained gabbros, or massive to schistose amphibolites, according as ..."
4. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"CHAPTER XXXVI THE PLATEAUX Nature and Arrangement of the Rocks: 1. LAVAS.
— Basalts, dolerites ... dolerites ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1904)
"Classes of Ro:ks The rocks may be classed as dolerites, syenites, diorites,
porphyries, ... dolerites The dolerites, as the term is here used, are medium or ..."
6. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"The dolerites usually form intrusive sheets or dykes and the basalts, lava-flows.
... In some cases the felspar precedes the augite (ophitic dolerites), ..."
7. Geology (field Geology: Petrography) by Hartley Travers Ferrar, George Thurland Prior (1907)
"THE dolerites, intrusive in the Beacon sandstone and the granite, are remarkably
uniform in appearance and in microscopic characters, ..."
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