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Definition of Monzonite
1. Noun. (geology) An intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase and orthoclase ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monzonite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monzonite
Literary usage of Monzonite
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 (1909)
"Potassic Division monzonite.* — Chiefly andesine or labradorite, with considerable
orthoclase and biotite, hornblende, or augite as the prominent ..."
2. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"The term quartz-monzonite, as originally defined, covered only those ...
Present usage, however, gives a wider signification to the monzonite. ..."
3. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"The term quartz-monzonite, as originally defined, covered only those ...
Present usage, however, gives a wider signification to the monzonite. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... the range is a quartz monzonite with transitions into granite. These facts
are interpreted as meaning that the frontal slope is formed by a great flat ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1882)
"... C'onn., anal, by П. L. Wells, described by Brush and Dana, Am. J.
Sc., III., xx., 283, 1880. monzonite.—App. L, p. 11. MORDENITE, Min., p. 446. ..."
6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"In succession from south to north the zones are : (a) the lowest zone, a light
coarse-grained monzonite specially rich in mica; (6) a finer-grained ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"Next in age is an intrusion of monzonite porphyry, which cuts and uplifts the
... In the center of the district, the porphyry is a coarse quartz monzonite ..."
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