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Definition of Groundmasses
1. groundmass [n] - See also: groundmass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundmasses
Literary usage of Groundmasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"... groundmasses these feldspars in trachytic rocks are usually subhedral to anhedral,
... in the more sodic varieties, and in the more glassy groundmasses. ..."
2. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1906)
"In his comparisons of these types with the constituent granules of the groundmasses,
he felt that local variations must be eliminated; hence he was careful ..."
3. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"In his comparisons of these types with the constituent granules of the groundmasses,
he felt that local variations must be eliminated; hence he was careful ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... groundmasses are by no means rare, but micro- stalline types consisting of
... т groundmasses composed mainly of acid plagioclase with le ..."
5. A Handbook of Rocks for Use Without the Microscope by James Furman Kemp (1918)
"... or between those with glassy or very finely crystalline groundmasses ...
and those with groundmasses of moderate coarseness ..."
6. A Handbook of Rocks, for Use Without the Microscope by James Furman Kemp (1908)
"... or between those with glassy or very finely crystalline groundmasses (andesites)
and those with groundmasses of moderate coarseness ..."
7. Geology of Western Ore Deposits by Arthur Lakes (1905)
"Felsite, applied by Gerhard in 1814 to the fine groundmasses of porphyries. ...
Often used to describe the groundmasses of truly porphyritic rocks that are ..."
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