Definition of Phonolites. Meaning of Phonolites. Synonyms of Phonolites

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Definition of Phonolites

Phonolite
Phonolite Pho"no*lite, n. [Phono- + -lite: cf. F. phonolithe.] (Min.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha["u]ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.

Meaning of Phonolites from wikipedia

- alongside phonolites. Low-degree partial melting of underplates of granitic material in collisional orogenic belts may also produce phonolites. Phonolite is...
- Tephriphonolite or tephri-phonolite is a mafic to intermediate extrusive igneous rock in composition between phonotephrite and phonolite. It contains 9–14% alkali...
- The phonolite or clinkstone of northern Ethiopia is a shallow-seated igneous rock. The phonolites intruded and punctured the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks...
- melt segregation in the mineralogical evolution of Cenozoic nephelinites/phonolites from Saghro (SE Morocco)". Mineralogical Magazine. 73 (1). Mineralogical...
- romanized: Ye’Åksum ḥāwelt) is a 4th-century CE, 24-metre (79 ft) tall phonolite stele, weighing 160 tonnes (160 long tons; 180 short tons), in the city...
- alkaline igneous rocks such as volcanic obsidians, rhyolites, trachytes and phonolites and plutonic quartz syenites where it is ****ociated with amphiboles. Its...
- other unusual igneous rocks such as carbonatite. Nepheline syenites and phonolites occur, for example, in Brazil, Canada, Cameroon, China, Greenland, Italy...
- deep water along the Cameroon Line. The volcanic soils of basalts and phonolites, dating to 3 million years, have been used for plantation crops since...
- composition between phonolite and tephritePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback – A volcanic rock with a composition between phonolite and tephrite...
- bears the same relation to them as the nepheline syenites have to the phonolites. A leucite-augite rock, resembling ijolite except in containing leucite...