Definition of Oligoclases

1. oligoclase [n] - See also: oligoclase

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligoclases

oligoastrocytoma
oligocellular
oligocene
oligochaeta
oligochaete
oligochaete worm
oligochaetes
oligochaetologist
oligochaetologists
oligochete
oligochitosan
oligocholia
oligochylia
oligochymia
oligoclase
oligoclases (current term)
oligoclonal
oligoclonal band
oligocyclopropyl
oligocystic
oligodactyly
oligodendria
oligodendroblast
oligodendroblastoma
oligodendroctye
oligodendroctyes
oligodendrocyte
oligodendrocytes
oligodendroglia
oligodendroglia cells

Literary usage of Oligoclases

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1889)
"Fig 3), are often arranged zonally, peripherally, or centrally, and are rarely isolated or irregularly arranged. In the basaltic rocks the oligoclases are ..."

2. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1888)
"Fig 3), are often arranged zonally, peripherally, or centrally, and are rarely isolated or irregularly arranged. In the basaltic rocks the oligoclases are ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1906)
"Most of the oligoclases are still perfectly fresh, and those partially decomposed still show their outlines and twinning bands, giving evidence of ..."

4. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"... although it is of little use for the more basic varieties, it affords a useful criterion for distinguishing the oligoclases, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The oligoclases contain always more or less potash, but among the albites there also occur specimens without potash. ..."

6. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"In some rocks there are probably lime-bearing feldspars that are calcic potash- albites, or potassic oligoclases, which arc not distinctly ..."

7. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"... certain oligoclases are optically negative, with Z the obtuse bisectrix and p< r; labradorite is optically positive, with Z the acute bisectrix and p>i" ..."

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