Definition of Glauconitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glauconitic

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glaucomas
glaucomatocyclitic
glaucomatocyclitic crisis
glaucomatous
glaucomatous cataract
glaucomatous cup
glaucomatous excavation
glaucomatous halo
glaucomatous nerve-fibre bundle scotoma
glaucomatous ring
glaucometer
glaucometers
glauconite
glauconites
glauconitic (current term)
glaucophane
glaucophanes
glaucophyte
glaucophytes
glaucosis
glaucosuria
glaucous
glaucous gull
glaucous sedge
glaucousness
glaucousnesses
glaucus
glaukosphaerite

Literary usage of Glauconitic

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

1. The Non-metallic Minerals: Their Occurrence and Uses by George Perkins Merrill (1910)
"glauconitic SAND. The names greensand, greensand marl, and glauconitic marl are given to a dull greenish, loosely coherent arenaceous deposit, ..."

2. ...The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain by Geological Survey of Great Britain, Alfred John Jukes- Browne, William Hill (1903)
"2 0 Hard sandy and glauconitic chalk О 6 West of Mere and opposite the opening of the road to ... 4 ^Hard compact chalk marl, becoming glauconitic ft in. ..."

3. Bibliography of North American Geology for 1914 with Subject Index by John Milton Nickles (1915)
"Yellow sand, not glauconitic 1 16. ... 21-6 Reddish glauconitic sand with light clay streaks 20-24 ... 3-4 White clay and yellow glauconitic- sand 1 0 ..."

4. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1894)
"Indurated ledge, calcareous sand, glauconitic and phosphatic, containing oyster shells 7 feet 3. Yellowish sands, containing shells in upper part 8 feet 4. ..."

5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"There has been very little secondary action of any kind as is proved by the absence of limonitic and of glauconitic staining, while the sharpness with which ..."

6. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"There has been very little secondary action of any kind as is proved by the absence of limonitic and of glauconitic staining, while the sharpness with which ..."

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