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Definition of Granitoid
1. a. Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Definition of Granitoid
1. Adjective. Resembling granite. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Granitoid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Granitoid
Literary usage of Granitoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1902)
"THE granitoid GNEISS. ... occurs a very coarse-grained granitoid gneiss in which
large pink felspar ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"(2) The great granitoid series (Laurentian).—Among the most conspicuous features
of the regions of Archean rock, in their present eroded condition, ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"(2) The great granitoid series (Laurentian).—Among the most conspicuous features
of the regions of Archean rock, in their present eroded condition, ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"(2) The great granitoid series (Laurentian).—Among the most conspicuous features
of the regions of Archean rock, in their present eroded condition, ..."
5. Petralogy. A Treatise on Rocks by John Pinkerton (1811)
"granitoid. Many rocks, inaccurately classed among granites, are reserved for ...
The Journ. de Ph. 1791, mention* a calcareous granitoid, the lime-stone or ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... and farther on still, there is a patch of granitoid rock.' None of the
above-named streams, however, are of any great importance; and the boundary ..."
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