Once it was exhausted of diorite—around the year 226B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

He brought them out on to the diorite slab in a single mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

The walls around them were slick and sheer, made of diorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

Great masses of syenite and diorite were intruded during the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Nothing cuts diorite except an even harder stone calleddiolite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

Phœnician inscription; piece of a diorite scarcophagus cover of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

The others got to the larger diorite pit of the Second Gate too late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

The rills on the interior of the diorite vessel were made in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Narmer's Temple: Week 1 Artifacts] Reference

Bargeloads of gold and diorite were brought out of the mine via this canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

And the domed roof was solid diorite—offering no purchase for drilled handholds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

A black-and-white diorite macehead and stone vessels were also included in the grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - The Elite Cemetery: Week 5] Reference

Inspired by a diorite stela inscribed with the laws of the great eighteenth-century B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! Do NOT Dig Here] Reference

Generally speaking, the soils produced from diorite are superior to those from dolerite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

Right, a diorite statue of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, from Girsu (modern Tello), Mesopotamia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Delight to the Eye] Reference

The island is composed primarily of diorite gneiss and granite, which decays rapidly to clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rakiura Island temperate forests] Reference

Coarse-grained diorite is found in intrusive igneous bodies associated with continental crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Igneous rock] Reference

Greenstone, diorite, and actinolite are found, though not so abundantly as those above mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

I aimed for another spot, and once again it glanced off unyielding diorite with a dull, sickening clank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Without doubt, however, the most striking feature of the cavern was its charcoal-colored diorite rock face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

Paleozoic substrates such as granite, schist, micaschist, diorite, and gneiss are found on Corsica and Sardinia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests] Reference

The great blocks boomed as they landed on the diorite ledge of Level 4 and tumbled down the rest of the massive tiered wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

Then they had set him up on the diorite pedestal with the brazier in front of it for burning spices and the flat gold plates for fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [PodCastle » PodCastle Miniature 32: Chu-bu and Sheemish] Reference

The 27-inch-high grano-diorite statue is believed to depict Taharqa, the third king of Dynasty 25 in Egypt who ruled from 690-664 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaoh in the Basement] Reference

Andesite and diorite are intermediate igneous rocks that have a chemistry between mafic and felsic (silica amounts between 53 to 65%).    From Wordnik.com.  [Igneous rock] Reference

The later intrusions are represented by the Ben Rinnes mass of granite and its basic modification, the Netherly diorite, east of Rothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Tello, the ancient Lagash, and bringing to light monuments of the pre-Semitic age, which included the diorite statues of Gudea now in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

This zone is composed of a sedimentary sequence (limestone, quartzite, shale) intruded by dacite and diorite as well as rhyolite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference