Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling jasper; mixed with jasper: as, jaspery quartz.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.
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- adjective Resembling
jasper .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The primary ores consist of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other sulphides, with large amounts of jaspery quartz and some calcite and dolomite.
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Celts or knives made of jasper and yellowish jaspery slate, which range from 2 to 5 inches in length, and are less than 1 inch in width and half an inch in thickness.
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At Los Corales, southwest of San Jose, there is much slate, here altered to a coarse, semi-jaspery structure.
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I have traversed the entire width of the metamor - phic belt many times andwhile the main features are easily distinguishable have almost always arrived at different conclusions about the dips of the jaspery slates between Tablasas and Pomiel.
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In some cases pieces of the wall rock are found inbedded in the syenite; and pebbles one-half syenite the other jaspery slate are not rare.
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South of the limestone the same jaspery slates come in again with varying strikes from east and west to N. 35° W., and with all dips up to 80° south.
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From there, the heavy bedded sandstones of Nizao Arriba, and the jaspery slates extend to near Maniel.
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* I found one loose piece of gray jaspery slata in the bed of the Nigua, of which nearly. a fourth of the surface was made up of flesh - colored grains, apparently feldspar crystals, averaging over an eighth of an inch Across.
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On the foiiner stream, at and even below the mouth of Madrigal Creek, the jaspery slates are seamed with dykes of all sizes from a mere thread up to many feet across; while the nearest exposure of the mass is near Gatare, eight miles further up the river.
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I collected numerous hand specimens here and elsewhere, in part green or blackish jaspery slate, the remainder syenite.
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