Lexicographical Neighbors of Granophyres
Literary usage of Granophyres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... as micro granites, granophyres, granites, gneisses and mica schists, but has
not succeeded in tracing them to their origin. ..."
2. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"CHAPTER X. GRANITES AND granophyres : PETROGRAPHY. ... The rocks analysed are
hornblende-bearing granophyres, the first from the large continuous area of ..."
3. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"In some of the granites, graduating into granophyres, of Mull and the Red Hills
of Skye augite is the dominant coloured mineral, but it tends to be ..."
4. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"As regards their internal structure and composition, this observer remarks that
compared with the normal granophyres of the Red Hills and other bosses of ..."
5. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"Mr. DAVIES was struck with the resemblance of some portions of the St. David's rock
to the Mull granophyres. It is worthy of note that in these ..."
6. An Introduction to the Geology of Cape Colony by Arthur William Rogers (1905)
"In its nature and composition the rock forming them is intermediate between the
ordinary olivine dolerite and the granophyres mentioned in connection with ..."
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