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Igneous rock composed of feldspar and hornblende
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diorite
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Diorite \Di"o*rite\, n. [Cf. F. diorite. See Diorism .] (Min.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.
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n. a granular crystalline intrusive rock
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n. (context rock English) A grey intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase feldspar, biotite, hornblende and/or pyroxene.
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thumb|upright=1.4|Diorite classification on QAPF diagram Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock composed principally of the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine ), biotite , hornblende , and/or pyroxene . The chemical composition of ...
Usage examples of diorite.
The remaining rocks from here are richer in lime and iron, and show a series of gradual transitions from micacious granite, through grano-diorite to quartz diorite, with considerable quantities of dark mica, and green hornblende.
Scores of beautiful vases of alabaster, breccia, marble, and soapstone, wrought in some cases to the thinness of a modern china cup, suggest at once the protodynastic Egyptian bowls of diorite and syenite, and show that if the Cretan took the idea from Egyptian models, he was not behind his master in the skill with which he carried it out.
On various sites in the palace at Knossos there have been found stone vessels of diorite, syenite, and liparite, exquisitely wrought.
Egypt is afforded by the fact that vases of Proto-Dynastic Egyptian form in diorite and syenite were discovered in the south and east quarters of the palace at Knossos.
It is made of a remarkable variety of porphyritic diorite that resembles breccia.
Under the category of anomalies, West made specific reference to the bowls carved out of diorite and other hard stones described in Part VI.
Scores of beautiful vases of alabaster, breccia, marble, and soapstone, wrought in some cases to the thinness of a modern china cup, suggest at once the protodynastic Egyptian bowls of diorite and syenite, and show that if the Cretan took the idea from Egyptian models, he was not behind his master in the skill with which he carried it out.
Most of the tombstones were of black Swedish granite or diorite, rough hewn on the back and sides and polished in front.
Meanwhile Sister Gertrude had joined the other nurses and I passed around some candy which, in addition to twenty pounds of brown sugar, we had been given for a diorite slab.
I saw them entombed with blocks of diorite and granite pressed against their very bodies in an underground crypt, only their heads and their necks free.