Lexicographical Neighbors of Granophyre
Literary usage of Granophyre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On the junction line, where the granophyre and gabbro meet, ... The granophyre
consists of quartz generally in well-defined crystals and of grey orthoclase, ..."
2. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"This solvent action may serve to explain some of the irregularities of the
granophyre intrusions. ' According to the same observer, such irregularities are ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The granophyre texture is analogous to the granitic or granitoid in the granitic
... Related to or belonging to that kind of structure called granophyre. ..."
4. The Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana by John Burchmore Harrison, Frank Fowler, Charles Wilgress Anderson (1908)
"Quartz-diabase and Augite-granophyre.—In places by a gradual decrease in the
proportion of the ferro-magnesian minerals and an increase in the amount of ..."
5. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Their caustic action has been most marked when brought to bear upon materials
comparatively basic in composition, as where granophyre has penetrated and ..."
6. The Geology of the English Lake District by John Postlethwaite (1906)
"This mass of granophyre occupies a large area, extending from Buttermere on the
... The granophyre is generally of a pale red colour, sometimes changing to ..."
7. The Differentiation of a Secondary Magma Trough Gravitative Adjustment by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1906)
"Next to the peculiar granite-granophyre is a hundred-foot (thick) zone of
intermediate rock which, with rapid transition, FIG. 8. ..."
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