Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabases
Literary usage of Diabases
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)
"HYPERSTHENE BASALTS AND ENSTATITE diabases These types are respectively connected
with normal basalt and diabase by transitional, often olivine-bearing, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"There can be little doubt that, like the so-called diabases, ... though, of
course, as the diabases are much older and have been far longer exposed to meta- ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... rhyolites, quartz í --т-* у ries, enstatite diabases, ... tuffs, diabases and
granite. ..."
4. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"The larger stones consist, for the most part, of various vesicular dolerites or
diabases, together with some pieces of limestone and occasionally large ..."
5. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"This change I have found, among the Wisconsin rocks, to be much more commonly
characteristic of the orthoclase-bearing diabases, than of those kinds which ..."
6. Upper Peninsula, 1881-1844: Lower Peninsula, 1885-1893 by Michigan Geological Survey (1895)
"... without ever having been near it, I see the opinion advanced that the majority
of rocks formerly considered to be diorites arc in reality diabases, ..."
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