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Fractured igneous and metamorphic rocks, and especially fractured volcanic rocks, can be highly permeable, as can limestone that has been dissolved along fractures and bedding planes to create solutional openings.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Here came in that earnest dream of the solutional "Europe" with which I have elsewhere noted that my very youngest sensibility was fed.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry