felspathic
Americanadjective
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The bed of the river furnished quite a collection of primitive rocks: there were pebbles of quartz, white, red, and grey; of granite; of sienite; of felspathic porphyry, hornblende, and quartz-porphyry; and of slate-rock.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
When mica or felspar occurs plentifully, we have, in the one case, micaceous sandstone, and in the other felspathic sandstone.
From Geology by Geikie, James
The hills behind consisted in the higher parts of a felspathic conglomerate and clay-slate dipping to the eastward.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas
Clinkstone or phonolite is a greenish-gray, compact, felspathic rock, somewhat slaty or schistose, and weathers with a white crust.
From Geology by Geikie, James
Hornblende schist also occur and a compact felspathic rock in the Suris defile.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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