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Definition of Felstone
1. n. See Felsite.
Definition of Felstone
1. Noun. (minerology) felsite ¹
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Definition of Felstone
1. felsite [n -S] - See also: felsite
Medical Definition of Felstone
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Felstone
Literary usage of Felstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports on the Physical, Descriptive, and Economic Geology of British Guiana by Charles Barrington Brown, James Gay Sawkins, Geological Survey of Great Britain (1875)
"Quartz-porphyry and felstone. In some layers the quartz crystals are well developed
in the form of double hexagonal pyramids, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A beautiful brown porphyritic felstone occurs at Buchan Ness, on the coast of
Aberdeenshire ; while a rock closely resembling the antique green porphyry is ..."
3. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"the essential point about such a rock is that it is a felstone, ... A typical
felstone is essentially composed of Orthoclase and Quartz, but the crystals or ..."
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