Definition of Dioritic

1. a. Containing diorite.

Definition of Dioritic

1. Adjective. Containing diorite. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dioritic

1. diorite [adj] - See also: diorite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioritic

dioptric
dioptric aberration
dioptrical
dioptrics
dioptries
dioptry
diorama
dioramas
dioramic
diorism
diorisms
dioristic
diorite
diorite-plagiogranitic
diorites
dioritic (current term)
diorthoses
diorthosis
diorthotic
dioscin
dioscorea
dioscoreaceous
dioscuric
diose
diosgenin
diosgenins
diosmin
diosphenol
diosphenols
diota

Literary usage of Dioritic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Differentiation from dioritic Magmas.—The dioritic shells commonly found along the contacts of granite batholiths have already been explained as chilled ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"dioritic Rocks The wall rock of many of the orebodies is a gray, fine-grained, and Fia. 8.—SPECIMEN B FROM DIKE IN WEST SIDE OF WEST FIVE MINE. ..."

3. Nippur Or Explorations A. Adventures on the Euphrates: Narrative of the by John Punnett Peters (1897)
"... Piece of Statuary in a hard, black, dioritic stone, found in a Jewish house on Hill I, but manifestly belonging to an earlier period. ..."

4. Upper Peninsula, 1881-1844: Lower Peninsula, 1885-1893 by Michigan Geological Survey (1895)
"The occurrence of lithologically identical belts of diorite in association with the rock series called the dioritic and with the granitic group, ..."

5. A Treatise on Earthly and Other Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1884)
"... Serpentine—Pyroxene—Asbestos—Rock Masses—Granites and Gneiss Rocks—Syenitic and dioritic Greenstones —Slaty Building Stones—Liverpool Corporation Quarry ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"The important question now arises, are these " granulitic" or granitic and dioritic dykes portions of the great masses representing these two groups? ..."

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