augitic
- a word derived from augite.
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When augitic and hornblendic materials predominate, then other terms are used; as, for example, dolerite tuff, greenstone tuff.
From Geology by Geikie, James
The thickness of the vegetation on the sides of its crater-like basin renders it difficult to discover the nature of the subjacent rock, but it is probably composed of black cellular augitic lava.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
The molten trap broke through at various times, and presenting various appearances, but in nearly the same centre; here existing as an augitic rock, there as a syenite, yonder as a basalt or amygdaloid.
From 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 by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
Pumice and trachyte are the most common rocks around this mountain, and these are augitic or porphyroid.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
Numerous dikes, consisting chiefly of highly compact augitic rocks, and of gray amygdaloidal varieties, intersect the strata, which have in several places been dislocated with considerable violence, and thrown into highly inclined positions.
From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles
