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Definition of Jaspilites
1. jaspilite [n] - See also: jaspilite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jaspilites
Literary usage of Jaspilites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic Geology by Charles Henry Richardson (1913)
"It consists of cherty iron carbonates, ferruginous cherts, pyritic quartz rocks,
jaspilites and ore bodies. The ore bodies are usually near the base of the ..."
2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"Some of the greenstones, believer! t') be basic lava-flows, with which the
jaspilites are associated, exhibit a marked bedded structure, snd it may he that ..."
3. Notes Accompanying the Lectures on Geology Applied to Mining: A Course Given by Eugene Thomas Hancock, Michigan Technological University (1910)
"It occurs principally in the vicinity of Tower and Ely and consists of cherty
iron carbonates, pyritic quartz rocks, ferruginous cherts, jaspilites and ore- ..."
4. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"... 824 Ferruginous shales, ferruginous cherts, and jaspilites 829 Ferruginous
shales 830 Ferruginous cherts 830 jaspilites 831 ..."
5. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1908)
"The banded jaspilites from Moshesh are interesting rocks, for they show two and
sometimes three ... The Origin of the Banded Ironstones and jaspilites. ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1892)
"Among the eruptive rocks are placed the jaspilites and their associated ores,
... A portion of the jaspilites and associated iron ores are still held to be ..."
7. Correlation Papers Archean and Algonkian by Charles Richard Van Hise (1892)
"Among the eruptive rocks are placed the jaspilites and their . ... A portion of
the jaspilites and associated iron ore.s are still held to be eruptive, ..."
8. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... jaspilites, mica-schists and a series of basic tuffs that have suffered
metamorphism until they are now largely hornblende-biotite-schists. ..."