Hornblende - Law Dictionary Search Results
Hornblende
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Hornblendic
Composed largely of hornblende resembling or relating to hornblende
Byssolite
An olive green fibrous variety of hornblende
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Crocidolite
A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda called also blue asbestus A silicified form in which
Diorite
An igneous crystalline in structure consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende It includes part of what was called greenstone
Eclogite
A rock consisting of granular red garnet light green smaragdite and common hornblende so called in reference to its beauty
Gneiss
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
Pargasite
A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole or hornblende
Picrite
A dark green igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite with hornblende augite biotite etc
Schist
or slates The common kinds are mica schist and hornblendic schist consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar
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