Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine-grained, light-colored granitic rock consisting primarily of orthoclase and quartz.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
haplite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A fine-grained
granitic rock composed mostly ofquartz andfeldspars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is one very beautiful specimen of shining white, fine-grained granite aplite, with small, pale red garnets.
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There is one very beautiful specimen of shining white, fine-grained granite aplite, with small, pale red garnets.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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The former deposits contain arsenopyrite and copper-bearing pyrite impregnating a mica-quartz-schist, adjacent to and in apparent genetic relation with aplite or pegmatite intrusives.
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There is one very beautiful specimen of shining white, fine-grained granite aplite, with small, pale red garnets.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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There is one very beautiful specimen of shining white, fine-grained granite aplite, with small, pale red garnets.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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The strongest mineralization encountered was a zone of intercalated "salami" granite, andesite, and aplite containing a stockwork to sheeted quartz + pyrite veinlets with visible gold, identified in a hole located approximately two kilometres southeast of the deposit.
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Of the five holes that intersected the mineralized quartz pebble conglomerate (QPC), assays were consistent with the average historical grades, but below the conglomerate beds IMT intersected mineralized aplite dykes and sills, as well as highly altered mineralized breccia at the unconformity between the Archean basement rocks and overlying Proterozoic sediments.
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Of the five holes that intersected the mineralized quartz pebble conglomerate (QPC), assays were consistent with the average historical grades, but below the conglomerate beds IMT intersected mineralized aplite dykes and sills, as well as highly altered mineralized breccia at the unconformity between the Archean basement rocks and overlying Proterozoic sediments.
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