diallage

How to use diallage in a sentence

• Also, in minute veins, in detached masses of diallage and serpentine rocks, on the west shore of Lake Michigan.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• Essentially it is a crystalline-granular compound of plagioclase, generally Labradorite and diallage.

  Volcanoes: Past and Present | Edward Hull

• It has compact Felspar for its base, in which are imbedded crystals both of diallage and Hornblende.

  A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End | John Ayrton Paris

• Gabbro, gab′ro, n. a rock composed of feldspar and diallage—also Euphotide.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) | Various

• diallage, an altered form of the mineral augite, with a lamellar structure, and a submetallic lustre on its planes of separation.

  The New Gresham Encyclopedia | Various