Definition of Variolites. Meaning of Variolites. Synonyms of Variolites

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Definition of Variolites

Variolite
Variolite Va"ri*o*lite, n. [L. varius various + -lite: cf. F. variolite.] (Geol.) A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.

Meaning of Variolites from wikipedia

- created the term variolite for aphanitic or fine-grained igneous rocks containing varioles. The weathering of varioles often cause variolites to have a pock-marked...
- crystallizations when melted and cooled rapidly on a microscopic slide. Variolites are a type of radiate fibrous growth, resembling spherulites in many respects...
- gabbro Unakite – Multicoloured metamorphic rock – An altered granite Variolite – Igneous rocks which contain varioles Vogesite – Type of ultrapot****ic...
- journals he described the granulite group, and dealt with pegmatites, variolites, eurites, the ophites of the Pyrenees, the extinct volcanoes of Central...
- larger than this. These co****ly spherulitic rocks p**** over into the variolites by increasing co****ness in the fibers of their spherulites, which soon...
- Mangerite Novaculite Pietersite Pyrolite Ra****vi granite Rhomb porphyry Rodingite Shonkinite Taconite Tachylite Teschenite Theralite Unakite Variolite Wad...
- Geologische Skizze van der Westküste Schottlands (1871); Die Struktur der Variolite (1875); Microscopical Petrography (in Report of U.S. Geol. Exploration...
- de Servières and dissertations on other stones around Nîmes including variolite. Jean-César Vincens (1802). Topographie de la ville de Nîmes (in French)...
- v Guberlinskhikh Gorakh" (in "Zapiski Mineralnavo Obschestva"); "Die Variolite von Yalguba" ("Tscherm. Mineral. Mitt." vi.); "Die Mikroskopische Beschaffenheit...
- emerged. Among these since the late 19th century geologists have reported variolite, a volcanic rock similar to basalt, and diabase, also of lava origin but...