Trachytic

Word TRACHYTIC
Character 9
Hyphenation tra chyt ic
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Trachytic"

What do we mean by trachytic?

Of or relating to trachyte

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The word "trachytic" in example sentences

One is overwhelmed by the contemplation of these innumerable sculptures, worked with delicacy and artistic feeling in a hard, intractable, trachytic rock, and all found in one tropical island. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Its double cone forms the limit of a trachytic belt which stands out distinctly in the mountain system of the island. ❋ Unknown (2003)

AN unfathomable gulf twenty-five miles long, and twenty miles broad was produced, but long before historic times, by the falling in of caverns among the trachytic lavas of the center of the island. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It may easily be conceived what vast quantities of elastic gases, what masses of molten matter accumulated beneath its solid surface whilst no exit was practicable after the cooling of the trachytic crust. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This central mass consists principally of a greyish trachytic porphyry, in some places rich in veins of silver-ore. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

Mexico -- the concretionary silex of the trachytic lavas. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

From Le Beage the trachytic mountain of +Mezenc+ (pronounce Mezing) is visited. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

At about a third of the way the Dordogne is crossed, and shortly afterwards is passed the ravine of the Egravats, formed by a landslip of the trachytic mountain, the Roc de Cuzeau, 5706 ft.; and a little farther S. on the same (E.) side the Puy de Carcadogne, 5890 ft. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

Crossing some cultivated fields, a bold eminence of trachytic tufa, covered with scanty grass and tufts of brushwood, rises between you and the sea, forming part of a range of low hills, which evidently mark the ancient coast-line. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

They rise from the place where the trachytic rocks overlap the granite, and were obtained by boring to the depth of from 82 to 92 ft. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

The volcanic current, flowing westward from Monastir by S.liqua and Massargiu, again approached the coast towards the southern extremity of S.rdinia, extending across the deep gulf of Palmas to the islands of S. Pietro and S. Antonio, which are entirely composed of trachytic rocks. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

Leucogæi, and is the result of the metamorphosis of the trachytic tufa by the chemical action of the gases that rise up through the fumaroles, a very fine variety of porcelain -- known to collectors as ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Ales, but strewed with numerous square masses of stone — principally fragments of obsidian, and trachytic and cellular lava — so as to resemble ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

About here, some of the trachytic porphyry which forms the substance of the hills had happened to have cooled, under suitable conditions, from the molten state into a sort of slag or volcanic glass, which is the obsidian in question; and, in places, this vitreous lava -- from one layer having flowed over another which was already cool -- was regularly stratified. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

The building material was trachytic rock as found upon the mesa. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

[21] The shaded areas indicate the principal trachytic masses, the broken lines represent the boundaries of the craters that are still recognisable, and the dotted lines the boundaries of the areas within which buildings were damaged by the earthquakes of 1796, 1828, 1881, and 1883 (according to Mercalli). ❋ Charles Davison (1899)

The trachytic masses and craters are denoted by the following tables: -- ❋ Charles Davison (1899)

For the most part they are to be found on steep, scarcely accessible, precipitous mountain-sides, but, without exception, only in a thick layer of breccia or agglomerate interposed between a trachytic and a volcanic stone. ❋ Theodor Hertzka (1884)

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