Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or resembling glauconite: as, a glauconitic marl; glauconitic sands and clays. Also
glauconiferous .
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Examples
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Patty, you are not yet ready for the transubstantiation of glauconitic flocculated basalt and therefore I can only explain to not explain.
First Contact Gabriel Orgrease 2012
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The lower component of the region's Kirkwood outcrop consists of very fine, dark, micaceous sand with a pebbly glauconitic basal layer.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007
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