单词 | monzonite |
释义 | monzoniten. 1. Mineralogy. An aluminosilicate of ferrous iron and calcium resembling green hornstone. Now historical. ΚΠ 1882 G. J. Brush Appendixes to Fifth Ed. of Dana's Mineral. i. 11 Monzonite..resembles green hornstone... Found on the Monzoni Mt. in the valley of Fassa, Tyrol. 1993 A. M. Clark Hey's Mineral Index (ed. 3) 469/2 Monzonite (of Kobell), aluminosilicate of alkalis, Fe2+, and Ca. 2. Geology. A granular igneous rock with a composition intermediate between syenite and diorite, spec. one containing approximately equal amounts of orthoclase and plagioclase. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > other igneous clay-stone1777 variolite1781 pyroxenite1845 aplite1862 anorthosite1863 teschenite1866 yellow ground1883 kimberlite1887 sanidinite1887 websterite1890 essexite1891 monzonite1895 missourite1896 theralite1898 heronite1899 kentallenite1900 carbonatite1924 wonderstone1936 1895 A. Harker Petrol. iii. 44 A special type of augite-syenite is presented by the Triassic intrusions of Monzoni in the southern Tirol (monzonite of authors). 1925 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 33 506 The term ‘monzonite’ properly will apply only to the rocks with a mixture of andesine and orthoclase. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 222/2 In general appearance and in field relations monzonites resemble granitic rocks; they differ from granites by reason of their lower quartz content. 1990 Jrnl. Petrol. 31 524 The porphyritic quartz monzonite contains euhedral hornblende crystals that are always more abundant than biotite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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