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Definition of Norite
1. n. A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.
Definition of Norite
1. a granular rock [n -S] : NORITIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Norite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Norite
Literary usage of Norite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Typical norite was encountered there also, after penetrating the glacial drift.
The norite at the contact in Falcon- bridge differs in no degree from the ..."
2. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"When the " blebs" occur in the norite, the latter has been called " spotted "
norite. It is common to find veins of sulphides extending from the ore body ..."
3. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"Good outcrops of the norite and of the hypersthene-gabbro are found on the
Susquehanna river, while boulders of both types strew the country throughout the ..."
4. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"Neither type is confined to any particular portion of the region, and the latter
may be considered a mineralogical facies of the norite. ..."
5. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William North Rice, Herbert Ernest Gregory (1908)
"Litchfield norite.— Certain dark gray rocks forming parts of Mt. Prospect, near
Litchfield, have been called by Professor Hobbs Litchfield norite. ..."
6. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"The nickel and copper are confined to the norite and its altered varieties. ...
The relations of these sedimentary rocks to the norite are in doubt, ..."
7. Building Stones and Clays: A Handbook for Architects and Engineers by Charles Henry Richardson (1917)
"The norite of Keeseville, \. Y., is susceptible of a high polish. I'ip.
!•_!::.—Anticline and quart/ vein in gneiss, Washington, ..."
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