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Definition of Tonalites
1. tonalite [n] - See also: tonalite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonalites
Literary usage of Tonalites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"In external appearance the tonalites are very like the granites but usually darker in
... In the south of Scotland (Galloway district) tonalites accompany ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In the south of Scotland (Galloway district) tonalites accompany hornblende- and
biotite-granites, hornblende- and augite-diorites. ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"The rocks are granites, granodiorites, tonalites, quartz-mica-diorites and
quartz-porphyries. Highly quartzose granites are uncommon. ..."
4. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"... tonalites contain only a very small proportion of interstitial alkali-felspar.
As these merge into the biotite- granites the amount of alkali-felspar ..."
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