chloritic
- a word derived from chlorite.
Example Sentences
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We afterwards found it in almost every Wady, and running north as far as El-'Akabah; whilst, with few exceptions, all our washings of red earth, chloritic sand, and bruised stone, yielded it and it only.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The ore is found in a sort of chloritic slate and iron pyrites which follow the ledge all around.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
The chloritic phases are usually farther from the ore deposit than the sericitic phases, indicating less intense and probably cooler conditions of deposition.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
The main trunk of many branches, it is a smooth incline, perfectly practicable to camels; with banks and buttresses of green-yellow chloritic sands, and longitudinal spines outcropping from the under surface.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In this case and at Rat Island, the passage of the gneiss into imperfect hornblendic or into chloritic slate, seemed to be connected with the segregation of the veins of quartz.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
