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Definition of Eucrite

1. a type of meteorite [n -S] : EUCRITIC [adj] - See also: meteorite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eucrite

Literary usage of Eucrite

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

1. The Geology of the Small Isles of Inverness-shire: (Rum, Canna, Eigg, Muck by Alfred Harker, George Barrow (1908)
"This is the case even in tongues and veins a few inches wide penetrating the eucrite. This tract of gneiss, measuring about a mile by half a mile, ..."

2. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"Detached portions of the eucrite, up to 50 yards in FIG. 104. ... In the north-west corner it is invaded by the eucrite in aE, eucrite, veined and largely ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"Later than all these rocks, and intruded beneath them, comes the eucrite group, which shows less variety. The rocks are usually somewhat rich in olivine; ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"The acid magma IIHS entered into peculiarly intimate relations with the eucrite, not only metamorphosing and impregnating that roc.k, but enclosing and ..."

5. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1908)
"The intimate invasion of the basic rocks by the acid magma has given rise to a number of hybrid varieties, due to impregnation of eucrite by granite and ..."

6. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"Al,03 ... Fe,0, ... MnO ... MgO ... CaO ... K,O ... Na2O ... H30 ... 99-25 9'J-HC 100-486 100-812 99-8*7 100-97 I. Anorthite from eucrite of Carlingford. ..."

7. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1904)
"(c) eucrite subgroup : olivine-pyroxene-anorthite-rocks, both hypersthene and augite being usually present. Under this last head are to be included the ..."

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