Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornblendes
Literary usage of Hornblendes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"... frequently from the alteration of the aluminous hornblendes and pyroxenes.
Epidote also results from the alteration of the aluminous varieties of ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1885)
"... and hornblendes. Augite and hornblende are usually dark-green or black minerals
which belong to the monoclinic crystalline system, and are commonly a ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"We may also mention here that generally speaking the hornblendes are more generally
distributed amongst the plutonio rocks, ..."
4. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"The light-green hornblendes, which are abundant in clusters or in scattered irregular
... It is rare to find these hornblendes in well-shaped crystals; ..."
5. Mineralogy by Frederick Henry Hatch (1892)
"The following list includes the more important hornblendes and ... Monoclinic
hornblendes. Common Hornblende (black aluminous varieties). ..."
6. The Geology of the Coama-Guayama District, Porto Rico by Edwin Thomas Hodge (1920)
"The hornblendes are decidedly prismatic, black and fresh. ... Generally the
hornblendes occur as interstitial matter between the feldspars. ..."
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