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Definition of Tholeiites
1. tholeiite [n] - See also: tholeiite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tholeiites
Literary usage of Tholeiites
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)
"Professor Rosenbusch has extended the name of " tholeiites " to rocks of this
group in ... They comprise the tholeiites, andesites and other more coarsely ..."
2. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"... tholeiites (Santa Isabel) define a limited range of isotopic ... tholeiites,
are composed of MORB-like lavas and lavas with arc-like isotopic and ..."