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Amphibole
noun · 78% connection
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Aphanite
noun · 78% connection
A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Augite
noun · 78% connection
A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Augitic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Biotite
noun · 78% connection
dark brown to black mica found in igneous and metamorphic rock
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Byssolite
noun · 78% connection
An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Clinkstone
noun · 78% connection
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Dark
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Diallage
noun · 78% connection
A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Diorite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Ditroite
noun · 78% connection
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
Eclogite
noun · 78% connection
A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
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: dark, green, igneous, rock, consisting.
