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单词 monchiquite
释义

monchiquiten.

Brit. /ˈmɒntʃɪkʌɪt/, /mɒnˈtʃiːkwʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɑntʃiˌkaɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Monchiquit.
Etymology: < German Monchiquit (M. Hunter & H. Rosenbusch 1890, in Tschermak's mineral. u. petrogr. Mittheilungen 11 447) < the name of the Serra de Monchique , a mountain range in southern Portugal where this kind of rock is found + -it -ite suffix1.
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.
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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).
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