Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthoclases
Literary usage of Orthoclases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the Department of Geology by Andrew C. Lawson (1906)
"The matrix in which these large orthoclases are imbedded appears under the
microscope to be composed of nothing but limonite and secondary quartz in rather ..."
2. Manual of Lithology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by Edward Higginson Williams (1895)
"In the orthoclases the angle measured over the two most perfect cleavage planes
is 90° ; in the ... THE orthoclases. These are orthoclase and sanidine. ..."
3. Report and Transactions (1897)
"The mica-quartz concretions often enclose large crystals of orthoclase; so the
question arises whether these orthoclases are of the same age as the ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"A peculiar quartz-less rock is next described containing large orthoclases,
plagioclase, and chlorite: it is concluded that the last-named mineral is ..."
5. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1880)
"... somewhat softened matrix, scattered through which are minute brighter red
orthoclases, and dark gray to black quartzes; and (3) an exceedingly compact, ..."
6. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1889)
"The orthoclases become transparent and colorless. Their index of refraction is
small, very rarely the same as that of Canada balsam ; their double ..."
7. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1888)
"... is not so great ns in the orthoclases, since the twin lamination takes its
place to a certain extent as a means of optical orientation. ..."
8. I. The Anorthosytes of the Minnesota Coast of Lake Superior: II. The by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"and that which had been so completely fused as to crystallize independently
amongst the orthoclases, was considered by him as the original quartz. ..."
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