Definition of Saprolites

1. saprolite [n] - See also: saprolite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saprolites

sapremias
sapremic
saprists
sapro-
saprobe
saprobes
saprobial
saprobic
saprodontia
saprogen
saprogenic
saprogenicities
saprogenicity
saprol
saprolite
saprolites (current term)
sapropel
sapropelic
sapropels
saprophagan
saprophage
saprophages
saprophagic
saprophagous
saprophagy
saprophilous
saprophyte
saprophytes
saprophytic
saprophytic organism

Literary usage of Saprolites

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 (1908)
"... upon the diorite and granite saprolites, contains workable values; 2, a still larger area of residuary placer, where the Columbian gravel has been ..."

2. Gold and Silver: Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United by Walter Richard Crane (1908)
"Small scale placer-mining has been carried on in various parts of North Carolina. At the Portis mine, Franklin County, auriferous saprolites are worked by ..."

3. The Incandescent Gas Light: Its History, Character and Operation. Comp. for by Wilhelm Gentsch (1896)
"Where the saprolites originally contained monazite this mineral, on account of its high specific gravity (4.9 to 5.3), is concentrated together with other ..."

4. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1896)
"Besides the gravel-channels at the Parker, the saprolites are, in general, auriferous; and a combination sluicing- and milling- process (Dahlonega method, ..."

5. Proceedings by Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society (1891)
"... shaking copper supplemented by broad blanket sluices, will entirely revolutionize gold saving in this class of ores, which Dr. Becker calls "saprolites. ..."

6. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"The rotten outcrops (saprolites) of many veins in the southern Appalachians were washed for gold.1 As erosion goes on the gold-bearing mantle rock of a ..."

7. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"The rotten outcrops (saprolites) of many veins in the southern Appalachians were washed for gold.1 As erosion goes on the gold-bearing mantle rock of a ..."

8. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1908)
"... upon the diorite and granite saprolites, contains workable values; 2, a still larger area of residuary placer, where the Columbian gravel has been ..."

9. Gold and Silver: Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United by Walter Richard Crane (1908)
"Small scale placer-mining has been carried on in various parts of North Carolina. At the Portis mine, Franklin County, auriferous saprolites are worked by ..."

10. The Incandescent Gas Light: Its History, Character and Operation. Comp. for by Wilhelm Gentsch (1896)
"Where the saprolites originally contained monazite this mineral, on account of its high specific gravity (4.9 to 5.3), is concentrated together with other ..."

11. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1896)
"Besides the gravel-channels at the Parker, the saprolites are, in general, auriferous; and a combination sluicing- and milling- process (Dahlonega method, ..."

12. Proceedings by Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society (1891)
"... shaking copper supplemented by broad blanket sluices, will entirely revolutionize gold saving in this class of ores, which Dr. Becker calls "saprolites. ..."

13. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"The rotten outcrops (saprolites) of many veins in the southern Appalachians were washed for gold.1 As erosion goes on the gold-bearing mantle rock of a ..."

14. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"The rotten outcrops (saprolites) of many veins in the southern Appalachians were washed for gold.1 As erosion goes on the gold-bearing mantle rock of a ..."

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