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Definition of Melaphyres
1. melaphyre [n] - See also: melaphyre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melaphyres
Literary usage of Melaphyres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal (1873)
"... TRAP-ROCKS (melaphyres). By PROFESSOR EDWARD HULI, MA, ERS Plate VII. [Read
March 12, 1873.] DR. MACALISTER, in his able Presidential Address, ..."
2. A Guide to the Determination of Rocks: Being an Introduction to Lithology by Édouard Jannettaz (1877)
"Varieties of composition: (1) melaphyres in which the proportion of Silica ...
But a certain number of melaphyres, analyzed under the microscope by Zirkel, ..."
3. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1866)
"would seem to belong to the class of melaphyres, and to resemble especially those
of Mansfeld, described by Freiesleben, of Saxony,* and thai of Faucogney ..."
4. The Ancient Volcanic Rocks of South Mountain, Pennsylvania by Florence Bascom (1896)
"Time melaphyres and ... melaphyres grade above and below into conspicuously
scoriaceous rocks. Basic igneous slates occur at the west .end of the Gettysburg ..."
5. Victoria: Geology and Physical Geography by Reginald Augustus Frederick Murray (1895)
"Those that are unmistakably contemporaneous are principally melaphyres, ...
6 Granite, c Breccia-conglomerate, d Sandstones and shales, e melaphyres and ..."
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