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adj. - Of or relating to or containing the mineral consisting of an aluminous usually black or dark green variety of pyroxene occurring in igneous rocks such as basalt.

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  • Rocks of augitic trap are found in various positions on it; the general strike is north and south; but when the gneiss was first seen, near to the basalt of the falls,...
  • Pumice and trachyte are the most common rocks around this mountain, and these are augitic or porphyroid.
  • Thus i have found angular fragments of feldspathic syenite imbedded in the black augitic lava of the volcano of
  • The bones were dug up by Mr. Walter Mantell from a bed of marly sand, containing magnetic iron, crystals of hornblende and augite, and the detritus of augitic rocks and...
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