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Definition of Spherulites
1. spherulite [n] - See also: spherulite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spherulites
Literary usage of Spherulites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"The porphyritic crystals and the spherulites are also drawn out in rows in the
... Sometimes, indeed, the spherulites have been so symmetrically grouped in ..."
2. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1892)
"In the small spherulites that lie isolated in and also bordering on the more
crystalline portions of the rock the centers of the spherulites are granulated ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"229), yielding dense small spherulites in some obsidians, as at Obsidian Cliff,
... There are other spherulites that are porous and consist of branching ..."
4. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"In spherulites of this type the fibres instead of radiating from one point ...
Again, it frequently happens that the spherulites have been developed side by ..."
5. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1897)
"In the spherulites of perfectly fresh rocks the space between the fibres is found
to be ... In older spherulites, where tridymite is not recognized, ..."
6. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1906)
"This specimen much resembles many collected from Paku Island, where also large
spherulites are found floating in a matrix of ..."
7. The Geology of the Fox Islands, Maine: A Contribution to the Study of Old by George Otis Smith (1896)
"The spherulites, which may be described as complex intergrowths of ...
These spherulites, especially the smaller, are not always to be seen in ordinary ..."
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