单词 | diorite |
释义 | dioriten. Mineralogy. A variety of greenstone n., consisting of hornblende combined with a triclinic feldspar (albite or oligoclase). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > greenstone > varieties of mulatto1816 hornblende rock1821 diorite1826 hypersthene rock1838 hypersthenite1849 norite1853 aphanite1863 hyperite1863 1826 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (ed. 4) 151 The Diabase, Diorite, and Amphibolite of French authors, seems to include both Greenstone and Hornblende rock. 1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder xii. 239 Hornblendic green-stones, or diorites. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (1869) vi. 182 The axe was pre-eminently the implement of antiquity... Serpentine and diorite were the principal materials. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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