单词 | minverite |
释义 | minveriten. Geology. A type of basic intrusive rock found chiefly in Cornwall, which is an altered dolerite rich in albite and brown hornblende, also containing angite and other minerals. ΚΠ 1910 C. Reid Geol. Country around Padstow & Camelford 46 These proterobases from St. Minerva do not agree entirely with any described type... The presence of large platy albite and soda-microcline felspars gives them a distinctive character, and if they are entitled to a special designation they may be called minverites, a sub-group of essexites. 1962 A. K. Wells & M. K. Wells Petrol. Igneous Rocks (ed. 12) iv. i. 457 The minverites are feebly developed in Devonshire, but are the dominant intrusive types in Cornwall, both in the neighbourhood of Plymouth and in the Padstow district... The type-specimens come from the Rock Quarry, St. Minver, on the Camel Estuary. 1968 Mineralogical Mag. 36 876 A fairly wide range of compositions is present in the minverite kaersutites. 1987 R. L. Bates & J. A. Jackson Gloss. Geol. (ed. 3) Minverite, a diabase containing hornblende and albite... Not recommended usage. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910 |
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