He calls the porphyritic trap "dark granite.". From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
He calls the porphyritic trap “dark granite.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
This nature reserve occupies the Scandola peninsula, an impressive porphyritic rock mass. From Wordnik.com. [Scandola Nature Reserve & Capes Girolata and Porto, France] Reference
The situation of the mines was picturesque; grand hills of porphyritic rock, and pine-forest everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Whether it was granitic or porphyritic, I had no opportunity of examining, but incline to think it belonged to the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Island and the narrow beach-line, the coast became more wall-like, and dark masses of porphyritic rock abutted into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
For some three hours we rode along among porphyritic mountains, getting higher at every turn, and enjoying the clear bright air. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The gloomy peak, which had long appeared capping the heights ahead, proved to be the culmination of a huge upthrust of porphyritic trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
It ignores the porphyritic sub-range in which the “Mother of the Villages” lies: and it brings close to the east of it the tall peaks of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Tabúk. 151 During the evening we walked up the Wady Surr, finding, in its precipitous walls, immense veins of serpentine and porphyritic greenstone, but not. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
A cut road runs to the top of the granite tongue, which faces the westernmost or down-stream outbreaks of the huge porphyritic masses on the other side of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
At a re-entering angle of the junction, a shallow pit was sunk; the sand became moist and red, and presently it was underlaid by a rubble of porphyritic trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
The bedded volcanic rocks which form a series of ridges trending north-west comprise porphyritic basalts, andesite, and, near Port Luchdach, brownish trachyte. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
A little way off, on our right, is the Peñón de los Baños -- "the rock of baths" -- a porphyritic hill forced up by volcanic agency, where there are hot springs. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The apex of the gloomy porphyritic trap is a long spine of the tenderest azure-white, filmy as the finials of Milan Cathedral, and apparently melting into thin air. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
They appear to be a body of sand; but, as usual on this coast, the superficial sheet, the skin, hardly covers the syenite and porphyritic trap that form the charpente. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
A tall, fissured rock, of the hardest porphyritic greenstone, high raised from the valley-sole, facing north-west, and reducible to two main blocks, is scattered over with these. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Long before this it existed as a slate and porphyritic line of hills. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
It is most likely associated with a series of porphyritic intrusive dikes and sills. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
There was also a strew of porphyritic lava-chips covered with a red (ochreous?) crust. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
The roadway, paved with well-cut, dark porphyritic stone, was twenty feet wide, and rested on deep foundations. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference
Such is the appearance which it presents where weathered; but its general aspect is that of a porphyritic trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
The sands and sandstones become highly crystalline quartzites, spotted with porphyritic developments of silicates. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
We were stopped by a small circular wall of porphyritic lava, with a base of pitchstone, which concealed from us the view of the crater. 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
On the property, the OGDZ structure cuts mafic and felsic volcanics as well as sedimentary units which are injected by numerous quartz-feldspar porphyritic dykes. From Wordnik.com. [StreetInsider.com News Articles] Reference
All are even grained, consisting of a mass of crystalline grains formed during one continuous stage of solidification, and no porphyritic crystals appear as in lavas. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The intrusive footwall rocks include granodiorite of the Zamora Batholith, as well as coarse porphyritic instrusive bodies previously designated as the Taricori Porphyry. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
The junction of Galaa Creek is remarkable for two porphyritic rock islands, situated in the bed of the river, which is here sandy, well watered, and about 300 yards wide. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference
On the other hand the most phenomenal regularity of values have been shown in certain Utah and Arizona copper mines, the result of secondary infiltration in porphyritic gangues. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference
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