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Definition of Spilites
1. spilite [n] - See also: spilite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spilites
Literary usage of Spilites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Geological Society of Dublin (1838)
"At Linfield a section of the rock would offer the following arrangement:— Very
slaty and veined spilites. Columnar compact Basalt. ..."
2. The Geology of the Country Around Plymouth & Liskeard by William Augustus Edmond Ussher, John Smith Flett (1907)
"Microscopic slides prove this rock to contain a matrix essentially similar to
the fine-grained spilites of this district. ..."
3. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"The typical spilites of Germany are most intimately associated with ordinary ...
like that generated in the slates contacting with the spilites of Europe. ..."
4. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"... the appearances of which are exactly like those of adjacent sediments. This is
especially true for the spilites and the serpentines, ..."
5. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1907)
"... have much in common with the spilites of the Upper Devonian of Cornwall; both
have low silica and rather high alkalies, principally soda; in both series ..."
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