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Definition of Intergrowths
1. intergrowth [n] - See also: intergrowth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intergrowths
Literary usage of Intergrowths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"In April, 1888,1 made mention of the observations of parallel intergrowths of
allanite and epidote in the porphyritic granite of the vicinity of ..."
2. The World's Minerals by Leonard James Spencer, William David Hamman (1916)
"intergrowths OF CRYSTALS intergrowths of two or more crystals are of ...
Examples of irregular intergrowths of this kind are to be seen on almost all of the ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Frequent parallel intergrowths of two varieties of feldspar occur; for example,-
... Such intergrowths are called perthitic intergrowths or perthite because ..."
4. Descriptive Mineralogy: With Especial Reference to the Occurrences and Uses by Edward Henry Kraus (1911)
"... the term is also used for intergrowths of other feldspars. Perthitic and micro-
perthitic structures refer to the character of scuh intergrowths. ..."
5. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"... intergrowths AND PARALLEL GROWTHS OF TWO DIFFERENT MINERALS. Crystals of two
minerals forming at the same time may: (fl) Mutually penetrate each other, ..."
6. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1892)
"Association as Inclusions and intergrowths.—(1.) The tendency of certain minerals
to inclose particular substances has already been alluded to. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"Frequent parallel intergrowths of two varieties of feldspar occur ; for example,
... Such intergrowths are called perthitic intergrowths or perthite because ..."
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