felspathic

Historical Examples

• Clay is formed from the disintegration of felspathic rocks, by the combined action of air and water.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

  Arnold Cooley

• Pebbles of felspathic porphyry were found in the river's bed.

  Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

  Ludwig Leichhardt

• The rock was felspathic, apparently allied to those already seen in the Balonne.

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

  Thomas Mitchell

• Sienite and feldspar succeeded in our descent to the snow line, where we found a felspathic granite.

  The Life of Kit Carson

  Edward S. Ellis

• The hills behind consisted in the higher parts of a felspathic conglomerate and clay-slate dipping to the eastward.

  Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2)

  Thomas Mitchell