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Definition of Olivines
1. olivine [n] - See also: olivine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olivines
Literary usage of Olivines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"The olivines are long, lathe-shaped aggregates varying in width from 0.03 ...
The olivines nearly all contain minute inclusions of feldspar averaging about ..."
2. ... The Mineral Structure of Some Victorian Rocks by James Stirling (1904)
"Magnetite occurs in grains of moderate size, and as fibres associated with ferric
hydrate. Some of the olivines approach the variety ..."
3. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1907)
"The fine-grained rock contains porphyritic olivines and slightly-rounded or else
angular ... Many of the olivines show an attached film of a fine-grained ..."
4. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"This is the case with some of the olivines in the dolerites of ... olivines rich
in iron assume a red or reddish brown colour when heated. ..."
5. The History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"But as the alteration is the greatest at right angles to the line of greatest
elasticity, the more highly altered olivines present an alternate series of ..."
6. Lithological Studies: A Description and Classification of the Rocks of the by Marshman Edward Wadsworth (1884)
"The least altered olivines are traversed by numerous fissures, most of which ...
In those olivines that are further changed the ferruginous bands increase, ..."
7. Modern Lithology Illustrated and Defined: For the Use of University by Ernest Howard Adye (1907)
"These olivines may be known by their fissures of metamorphism forming a mesh-work,
... The olivines in the part of the field viewed with ordinary light are ..."
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