- south-central
British Columbia. To the
Romans it was
known as
Lapis porphyrites.
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History (36, 11)
affirmed that the "Imperial...
- Mons
Porphyrites (today
Gebel Dokhan) is the
mountainous site of a
group of
ancient quarries in the Red Sea
Hills of the
Eastern Desert in Egypt. Under...
-
Peridotite Intrusive or
Hypabyssal type Quartz-porphyry Orthoclase-porphyry
Porphyrite Dolerite Picrite Lavas or
Effusive type Rhyolite,
Obsidian Trachyte Andesite...
- gneiss,
veined with
feldspar and quartz, and inters****d with
reddish porphyrite.
Twelve major forest types are
found in the area. The
landscape is fragmented...
- and from
Gothenburg harbour. The
bedrock of
Vinga is
mostly made up of
porphyrite (porfyrit), a
volcanic rock with less
Silicon dioxide, SiO2, than porphyry...
- Lévy
began their researches. They
succeeded in
producing such
rocks as
porphyrite, leucite-tephrite,
basalt and dolerite, and
obtained also
various structural...
- (low grade) ore
deposit of copper,
consisting of
porphyry rocks Mons
Porphyrites, the only
porphyry quarry worked in the
ancient world for the emperor's...
-
apparent to the
kingdoms of Spain. And
Johannes Hevelius called it "Mons
Porphyrites"
after the
mountains near Olbia, Egypt. A
particular region of very low...
- the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?". Wired. Pea****, D. P. S. "Mons
Porphyrites". In
Kathryn A. Bard;
Steven Blake Shubert (eds.).
Encyclopedia of the...
-
wooden columns and pillars,
frescoes and
Polytheron doorways. A
variety of
porphyrite stone lamps, vases, amphorae,
cooking pots, cups, lamps,
tools and every-day...
