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... common minerals , • 123 14 32 37 60 minerals , 66 allies , IX . - Examination of the optical properties of minerals , • 838 78 85 VII . - Blowpipe - tests useful in the determination of common · • VIII . — Quantitative flame - reactions ...
... common minerals , • 123 14 32 37 60 minerals , 66 allies , IX . - Examination of the optical properties of minerals , • 838 78 85 VII . - Blowpipe - tests useful in the determination of common · • VIII . — Quantitative flame - reactions ...
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... common creep of the higher beds down the slope of a hill - side , then the direction and amount of the true dip can be found by the simple geometrical method of Mr. W. H. Dalton . * The directions of the walls , or rock - faces , on ...
... common creep of the higher beds down the slope of a hill - side , then the direction and amount of the true dip can be found by the simple geometrical method of Mr. W. H. Dalton . * The directions of the walls , or rock - faces , on ...
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... common triplet pocket - lens , or any useful form that will bear rough usage , must always be carried in the field , as indeed it should be carried by the geological observer every day of his life , whether in town or country . A note ...
... common triplet pocket - lens , or any useful form that will bear rough usage , must always be carried in the field , as indeed it should be carried by the geological observer every day of his life , whether in town or country . A note ...
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... Common Muscovite and other pale micas . - Remarkably perfect basal cleavage . * " Tertiary Peridotites of Scotland ; " Quarterly Journal of Geological Society , London , vol . xli . ( 1885 ) , p . 383 . 2. Darkly - coloured or opaque ...
... Common Muscovite and other pale micas . - Remarkably perfect basal cleavage . * " Tertiary Peridotites of Scotland ; " Quarterly Journal of Geological Society , London , vol . xli . ( 1885 ) , p . 383 . 2. Darkly - coloured or opaque ...
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... common gas also gives a slight reaction ; but the stains thus produced are ordinarily quite slight compared with those yielded by minerals , especially if the mass is not allowed to rest long upon the silver coin . CHAPTER VI . SIMPLE ...
... common gas also gives a slight reaction ; but the stains thus produced are ordinarily quite slight compared with those yielded by minerals , especially if the mass is not allowed to rest long upon the silver coin . CHAPTER VI . SIMPLE ...
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abundant acid altered amphibole andesites angle appear aragonite areas assay augite axis basal bead become biotite blue brown calcareous calcite carbonate Carboniferous cavities character cleavage cobalt colour colourless common commonly compact constituents Cretaceous crossed nicols crystalline crystals dark decomposed deposits developed Devonian elongated encrustation eurites felspar fibrous flame foliated forms fossils fragments garnet Geol glass Gotlandian grains granite granular granules green groundmass H Cl hinge-line hornblende igneous rocks iron Journ Jurassic lavas leucite limestones lithoidal magnetite margin marked mass mica microscope minerals minute nepheline occur olivine opaque ophitic optic ordinary Ordovician orthoclase oxide pale parallel Plagioclase planes plates pleochroism polarised porphyritic posterior powder prismatic prisms pyroxene quartz radial reaction Refr refractive resemble rhombic rhyolites schists sections seen septa serpentine shell silica soda sometimes specific gravity specimens spherulites spicules structure sulphur surface thick trace trachytic tube types typical umbo ventral
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