Definition of Granulitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Granulitic

granulation tissue
granulationes
granulationes arachnoideales
granulations
granulator
granulators
granule
granule cell
granule cell of connective tissue
granule cells
granules
granuliferous
granuliform
granulite
granulites
granulitic (current term)
granulo-
granuloblast
granuloblastosis
granulocyte
granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors
granulocytes
granulocytic
granulocytic leukaemia
granulocytic leukemia
granulocytic sarcoma
granulocytic series
granulocytin

Literary usage of Granulitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"It consists essentially of a granulitic aggregate of labradorite and augite, with little octahedra of magnetite. " granulitic gabbros " or, as Continental ..."

2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"He discusses the nature of the granulitic rocks and the mode of occurrence and ... A general petrographical description of the granulitic rocks is given, ..."

3. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"Under the microscope it shows " phenocrysts of turbid plagioclase (indeterminable), in a granulitic matrix of turbid felspar, ..."

4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1917)
"The granulitic hornblende schist. This occurs in the Elsie lease in shafts south of the point at which the hornblende gneiss disappears. ..."

5. Bulletin by Mysore (India : State). Dept. of Mines and Geology (1904)
"The change is still more marked and the typical granulitic structure more universally and distinctly developed in the patches of schist lying included in ..."

6. Annual Report (new Series). by Geological Survey of Canada (1889)
"Microscopically (1506) it appears as a granulitic aggregate of quartz, ... As a rule, the granulitic or rounded character of the quartz and felspar is very ..."

7. The Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana by John Burchmore Harrison, Frank Fowler, Charles Wilgress Anderson (1908)
"The rocks consist of granitic aggregates of quart/, in places showing strain-shadows, or being more less granulitic with orthoclase-feldspar in places in ..."

8. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1905)
"It has the appearance of, and is accepted by many observers as an inclusion in the granulitic ; and again, the noticeable Diorite dyke which cuts the Gabbro ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Granulitic on Dictionary.com!Search for Granulitic on Thesaurus.com!Search for Granulitic on Google!Search for Granulitic on Wikipedia!

Search