How To Use diorite In A Sentence
- At this location, a succession of chloritized volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks are over-thrust by a massive undeformed quartz diorite.
- Hole LAV-135A was drilled on Section 1200NE and intersected mainly alternating granodiorite and tonalite containing weak to moderate chalcocite in the uppermost 170 metres. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- A 40Ar-39Ar step-heating experiment on the same granodiorite yielded an irregular plateau with an age of 119±9 ka and isochron and inverse isochron ages of 148±50 and 146±35 ka. U-Pb and Ar-Ar constraints on the age of granitic intrusions beneath Medicine Lake Volcano, California, USA
- Granite and granodiorite are common intrusive igneous rocks that are restricted to the Earth's continents. Igneous rock
- Immediately to the north and west of Great and Little bays, a granite intrusion of Exeter diorite comprising the Exeter pluton (i.e., part of the Hillsboro plutonic series) is present. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
- The diorite block was so fragile that to keep it from chipping or cracking during installation it had to be set upon several blocks of ice and nudged gently into its foundation as the ice melted away. Colossus
- Greenstone, diorite, and actinolite are found, though not so abundantly as those above mentioned. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- Shackleton's expedition, refer to Ferrar's and Prior's description of the foundation rocks, and state that according to their own investigations the foundation rocks consist of banded gneiss, gneissic granite, grano-diorite, and diorite rich in sphene, besides coarse crystalline limestone as enclosures in the gneiss. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2
- Besides stuffs and mats, the furniture comprised chairs, beds, stools, an enormous number of vases, some in coarse pottery for common use, others in choice stone such as diorite, granite, or rock crystal very finely worked, on the fragments of all of which may be read cut in outline the names and preamble of the Pharaoh to whom the object belonged. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
- The thrust sheet overlying the Delaney Dome Formation is composed of the basic Ballyconneely Amphibolite and interbanded quartz diorite and hornblende gneiss that intrude the Dalradian sediments.