The geologist was surprised to see hornblende in that rock because it was not naturally occurring in that area. From LearnThat.org.
This stone is a volcanic rock called hornblende, of very fine grain, with minute specks of mica. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
An examination of the stones which fell at Fort de France showed them to be of a variety of lava called hornblende and andesite. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror] Reference
It is found in the greenstone and hornblende-schists of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
It is a variety of hornblende, composed of silica, lime, and magnesia, with a little alumina. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference
Many of the latter are magnetite, while the others are hornblende and various ferromagnesian silicates. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference
About Losito we found the trap had given place to hornblende schist, mica schist, and various schorly rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Near Loreto is S. Lucia di Tallano, 1270 ft., with a quarry of a beautiful amphibole, a variety of hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
The boulders of Erreré are entirely distinct from the rock of the Serra, and consist of masses of compact hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Elsewhere, Precambrian granitic gneiss, Precambrian hornblende gneiss, and fanglomerate are common (Berg and others, 1980). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Many of the layers are entirely destitute of hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Instead of garnets we met with a few solitary crystals of hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The floor is formed of the native rock (hornblende), and is very uneven. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The granites of Guiana, as well as the hornblende-slates, which I saw near. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
I observed Pegmatite of a white colour, and hornblende Porphyry and Diorite. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
When in fragments, they might be taken at first sight for basalt or hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
On the road to Catia we see the chloritic schist passing into hornblende schist. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
These balls are composed of lamellar feldspar and hornblende closely commingled. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
I observed neither hornblende, black schorl, nor rutile titanite, in this granite. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The hornblende contains also some carbon, like the Lydian stone and kieselschiefer. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
"So you don't know the difference between augite and hornblende?" he once enquired. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
In both these states I could not discover in it either garnets, hornblende, or diallage. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Kinchinjhow, whose adjacent surfaces are coated with a glassy waved layer of hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
The rock does not contain hornblende, but great crystals of foliated olivine, which have a triple cleavage. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The serpentine there belongs rather to the schistose hornblende (hornblendschiefer), as in the island of Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
It is a dark, heavy, coarsely crystalline aggregate of feldspar and AUGITE (a dark mineral allied to hornblende). From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Parime, only granular granites containing a little hornblende, granites passing into gneiss, and schistoid hornblendes. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Dark trappean rocks full of hornblende have in many places burst through these schists, and appear in nodules on the surface. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
Atures, we perceive, that, like the granite of Syene in Egypt, it is a granite with hornblende, and not a real syenite formation. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The colouring matter does not penetrate the stone, which is coarse-grained granite, containing a few solitary crystals of hornblende. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Possibly it may denote the existence of some strata of hornblende-schist covered by the waters, in which schist the sand is disseminated. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Montserrat, a solfatara; fine porphyritic lavas with large crystals of feldspar and hornblende near Galloway, according to Mr. Nugent. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
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