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Definition of Spessartites
1. spessartite [n] - See also: spessartite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spessartites
Literary usage of Spessartites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"The groundmass contains calcic feldspar in excess of orthoclase, which may be
present in small amounts with a little quartz. spessartites are slightly more ..."
2. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey ... and Museum of Practical Geology by Geological Survey of Great Britain, Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) (1902)
"The spessartites are rather of intermediate, ... often greenish-brown hornblende
of the spessartites, and while quartz is frequent in the latter, ..."
3. The Geology and Scenery of the Grampians and the Valley of Strathmore by Peter Macnair (1908)
"... and spessartites, are also to be met with throughout the Highlands. Fig.
27 shows a section of lamprophyre from a dyke which crosses the Garry near ..."
4. The Geology and Scenery of the Grampians and the Valley of Strathmore by Peter Macnair (1908)
"... and spessartites, are also to be met with throughout the Highlands. Fig.
27 shows a section of lamprophyre from a dyke which crosses the Garry near ..."
5. Gems and Precious Stones of North America: A Popular Description of Their by George Frederick Kunz (1890)
"The beautiful little red spessartites found in the rhyolite cavities with topaz,
at Chalk Mountain, ..."
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