单词 | monchiquite |
释义 | monchiquiten. Geology. A lamprophyre containing small phenocrysts of olivine and augite, and usually also biotite or an amphibole, in a glassy groundmass consisting of or containing analcite. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > porphyrite rock > varieties of red rock1721 oriental verd-antique1852 kersanton1862 kersantite1868 uralite-porphyry1868 monchiquite1891 vogesite1891 camptonite1895 hedrumite1896 wyomingite1897 spessartite1908 rhyodacite1913 rhyolite1932 1891 Ann. Rep. Arkansas Geol. Surv. 1890 II. iv. 110 The Brazilian dikes..form an olivine-free class of the rock that Rosenbusch calls monchiquite. 1896 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 4 679 (heading) On the monchiquites or analcite group of igneous rocks. 1915 Geol. Mag. 6th Decade 2 324 Nepheline-monchiquite.—In the hand-specimen this rock has the characteristic aspect of a melanocratic rock. 1961 F. H. Hatch et al. Petrol. Igneous Rocks (ed. 12) iv. ii. 475 Localized intrusions of basic lamprophyric rocks including camptonites and monchiquites occur in or near the Ayrshire vents. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 194 Rare nephelinite and monchiquite diatremes, such as Wildcat Peak.., also occur in the province. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1891 |
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