Hornblendic

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Horn`blend´ic


a.1.Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
Small quantities of either clinopyroxene or hornblendic amphibole may occur as an additional phenocryst phase.
Geology and petrography of the Nagar Parkar Igneous Complex, southeastern Sindh: the Wadhrai body
Study of three representative thin sections reveals that the nepheline syenite essentially consists of alkali feldspar (54-57%), nepheline (14-16%), hornblendic amphibole (6-9%), sphene (5-6%), plagioclase (4-5%) and aegirine augite (4-5%).
Petrography and physicomechanical properties of rocks from the ambela granitic complex, NW Pakistan
All the samples with hornblendic amphibole come from near plutons (sample 2 from near Chisholm Brook granodiorite; sample 6 from near the Spruce Brook Pluton, sample 10 from the Huntington Mountain Pluton, and sample 12 from the cluster of Devonian plutons/aureoles near Gabarus Bay (Fig.
Very low- and low-grade metamorphism of mafic volcanic rocks of the Mira terrane (Avalonia), southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
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