Lexicographical Neighbors of Elvanites
Literary usage of Elvanites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1875)
"... become " quartz porphyries," " elvanites," etc.; and among the Tertiary or
recent rocks there is the strictly corresponding series of trachytes, ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"... and elvanites in the county of Waterford, Ireland, gives an account of the
structure as seen under the microscope, and the paper may therefore be of ..."
3. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"... or "elvanites." "Felsite* is so loosely denned by its originator, and is so
differently used by different writers, that its reputation as a rock-name is ..."
4. The Physical Geology & Geography of Ireland by Edward Hull (1878)
"... porphyries and elvanites,1 which are interbedded with the grits and slates of
the formation; and it is probable that the vents from which they were ..."
5. Mines and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales, and Notes on the Geological by New South Wales Dept. of Mines, William Branwhite Clark, Archibald Liversidge (1875)
"... elvanites, and diorite. The dykes or reefs of quartz in the Silurians are
therefore not, as once supposed, the exclusive sources of Australian gold. ..."
6. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1878)
"Similar shrinkage- fissures are especially noticeable in the case of phonolite,
a rock which bears a great petrographic resemblance to the elvanites or ..."
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