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Definition of Phonolites
1. phonolite [n] - See also: phonolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phonolites
Literary usage of Phonolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"TRACHYTES AND phonolites. THE trachytes are lavas which, with a lower percentage
of silica than the rhyolites, have as much or more of the alkalies. ..."
2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Olivine occurs in small amounts in some phonolites and more abundantly in the
basanites. Titanite is common in phonolites, as are also magnetite, ..."
3. Stones for Building and Decoration by George Perkins Merrill (1903)
"phonolites differ from trachytes in carrying one or both of the minerals ...
Neither trachytes nor phonolites are, so far as now known, common rocks in the ..."
4. Stones for Building and Decoration by George Perkins Merrill (1903)
"phonolites differ from trachytes in carrying one or both of the minerals ...
Neither trachytes nor phonolites are, so far as now known, common rocks in the ..."
5. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering and Soils by George Perkins Merrill (1897)
"This last, as may be readily imagined, is due to the absence of free quartz in
the Fourche Mountain rocks. The phonolites of Marienfels, near Assig, ..."
6. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"... atmospheric agencies—Chemical composition of lavas—Acid, intermediate and
basic lavas—Rhyolites and Soda- rhyolites—Andesites, Trachytes, phonolites and ..."
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