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Definition of Geodes
1. geode [n] - See also: geode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geodes
Literary usage of Geodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"To these are to be added, as occurring in the geodes, prehnite, calcite, hyalite,
and specular ... Fournet ascribes the formation of the geodes in the 9» ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"geodes. — geodes differ from concretions in that they are formed in cavities of
... Other geodes are formed by the force of crystallization in the following ..."
3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"geodes differ from etions in that they are ed in cavities of the rock from without
... Other geodes formed by the force of i ^1 tallization in the following ..."
4. Notes on the Northwest, Or Valley of the Upper Mississippi by Wm J A Bradford (1846)
"The limestone, of a dirty color, and much broken up, is the matrix of numerous
siliceous and calcareous geodes. These fine geodes, picked up by all ..."
5. First[-fifth] Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Missouri by George Clinton Swallow, Abram Litton, Benjamin Franklin Shumard, Frederick Hawn (1855)
"There are many nodules oP chert and sili- cious geodes disseminated through ...
These geodes are filled with a great variety of crystals of calcareous spar, ..."
6. A Treatise on Ore Deposits by Bernhard von Cotta (1870)
"SUCCESSION OF MINERALS IN METALLIFEROUS VEINS AND geodes. § 8. As the
association (combination) of minerals in metalliferous deposits is not merely ..."
7. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Biography: Embracing a Series of Original Memoirs by Elihu Rich, Lambert Lilly (1856)
"geodes, JAMES, a Scotch advocate, 1710-49. GEDDES, MICHAEL, an ecclesiastical
historian, chaplain at Lisbon, died 1714. GEDIKE, F., a Prussian writer on ..."
8. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"There are three different kinds of imitative shapes resulting from geodes of
crystals : 1. Those in which the individuals spring from, or are attached to a ..."
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