Granitic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: graniticGranitic
Like granite in composition color etc having the nature of granite as granitic texture...
Granitical
Granitic...
Pegmatite
Graphic granite See under Granite...
Belgian block
A nearly cubical block of some tough stone esp granite used as a material for street pavements Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches...
Clay
A soft earth which is plastic or may be molded with the hands consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition in part of rocks containing aluminous minerals as granite Lime magnesia oxide of iron and other ingredients are often present as impurities...
Epidotic
Related to resembling or containing epidote as an epidotic granite...
Gneiss
A crystalline rock consisting like granite of quartz feldspar and mica but having these materials especially the mica arranged in planes so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss...
Gneissoid
Resembling gneiss having some of the characteristics of gneiss applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss or mica slate and gneiss...
Granite
A crystalline granular rock consisting of quartz feldspar and mica and usually of a whitish grayish or flesh red color It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure...
granitelike
as hard as granite...
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