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Albite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Andesite
noun · 78% connection
An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Anorthite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Basalt
noun · 78% connection
A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Crag
noun · 78% connection
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Diabase
noun · 78% connection
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Diapir
noun · 78% connection
a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Ditroite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Dolerite
noun · 78% connection
A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Elaolite
noun · 78% connection
See Elaeolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Felsite
noun · 78% connection
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Gabbro
noun · 78% connection
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Gieseckite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Granite
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Granitoid
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Granulite
noun · 78% connection
A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.
Gtraystone
noun · 78% connection
A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: granitoid, rock, containing, feldspar, biotite.