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Definition of Granulite
1. n. A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Definition of Granulite
1. Noun. (geology) A fine-grained metamorphic rock composed chiefly of feldspar, quartz, and garnets ¹
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Definition of Granulite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Granulite
Literary usage of Granulite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"I. granulite, from the Teufelsmauer, a dyke") Analysed by from three to five
fathoms wide, ... granulite, near Unter-Bergen, on the south bank of the Danube ..."
2. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"granulite. Marble. Serpentine. Determination of Rocks in the Field. General Characters
of Argillaceous, Calcareous, Silicious, ..."
3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"granulite. Marble. Serpentine. Determination of Rocks in the Field. General Characters
of Argillaceous, Calcareous, Silicious, ..."
4. Modern Lithology Illustrated and Defined: For the Use of University by Ernest Howard Adye (1907)
"Garnet granulite, Chemnitz District, Saxony, x 20.—The term granulite is used by
English and German writers to signify a small group of even-grained rocks, ..."
5. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1908)
"granulite OF ROODE VLOER. interesting feature, however, is :that the rock passes
gradually into hornblende epidote (and zo'isite)—granulite and- then by ..."
6. Manual of Lithology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by Edward Higginson Williams (1895)
"Among the accessories is biotite, which makes transitions to gneiss, so that we
can have the two intermediate rocks biotite- granulite and ..."
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