Lexicographical Neighbors of Elvans
Literary usage of Elvans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"The tin and copper veins near Tavistock have nearly the same direction as the
elvans and general run of granitic matter of Kit Hill. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Among the finest rocks of this class in Britain are the porphyritic granites of
Cornwall and of Shap in Westmoreland ; the elvans, or quartz- porphyries ..."
3. The Geological Observer by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1851)
"They are to the granites of this part of Ireland what the elvans of Devon ...
The elvans of Wicklow and Wexford can be well studied, not only inland but on ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The veins are generally a compound of felspar and quartz. elvans. ... The elvans
have almost the same chemical and mineralogical composition as the granites ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1878)
"... composition of which differs very materially from that of the majority of the
Cornish elvans; and although it has been briefly noticed by Mr. AK Barnett ..."
6. Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners ; with Sketches of Scenery ; Designed as a by John R. Leifchild (1855)
"Crantock church is built of lere it hardens by exposure, and ancient stone coffins
are of the same material. GRANITE VEINS IN CLAY-SLATES, elvans, ..."
7. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina by North Carolina State Geologist (1856)
"... Vein— Vicinity of elvans—Passage of a Vein from one Rock to another—Condition
of the Watts of a Vein. § 109. The contents of a vein is often found to ..."
8. Observations on the West of England Mining Region: Being an Account of the by Joseph Henry Collins (1912)
"... ON THE RELATIVE AGES OF THE elvans AND LODES THE periods of granitic intrusion
must necessarily have been periods of heating and consequent expansion, ..."
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