porphyry in English

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a hard igneous rock containing crystals, usually of feldspar, in a fine-grained, typically reddish groundmass.
The fault places massive fractured greenstones over relatively undeformed feldspar andesite porphyry .
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( circa 232–303 ) , Neoplatonist philosopher; born Malchus . He was a student of Plotinus, whose works he edited after the latter's death.

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1. The Auerberg is made of rhyolite (quartz porphyry), a volcanic rock.

2. Drill hole has validated Magmatic’s exploration model, intersecting porphyry-style mineralisation in the predicted target zone, downdip from gold and porphyry pathfinder Anomalisms and broadly coincident with MIMDAS conductivity and chargeability .

3. ... in the centre there's the altar of porphyry with the tomb of the hero,

4. The granite porphyry is rich in megacrystic alkali feldspar often with rapakivi texture.

5. Amygdaloidal Basalt and Porphyry Chinese Writing Stones Mix of Colors Lake Superior rocks LoneWolfCraftShop

6. ... in the center there's the altar of porphyry with the tomb of the hero,

7. Granules, chippings and powder of travertine, ecaussine, granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental stone

8. His accounts are quoted by Porphyry (De abstin., iv, 17 ) and Stobaeus (Eccles., iii, 56, 141).

9. The mineral zoning and the hydrothermal alteration of the rocks indicate a porphyry copper ore deposit.

10. Multistage Intrusion, Brecciation, and Veining at El Teniente, Chile: Evolution of a Nested Porphyry System V

11. Agaphite – A turquoise varietal name, given is 1806 to a conchoidal turquoise occurring in a porphyry or lava

12. Bornite is an important copper ore mineral and occurs widely in porphyry copper deposits along with the more common chalcopyrite

13. Bornite is an important copper ore mineral and occurs widely in porphyry copper deposits along with the more common chalcopyrite

14. The porphyry mineralization further benefited from the dry climate that let them largely out of the disturbing actions of meteoric water.

15. Most copper is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0% copper.

16. They prefer the so-called late-date, or Maccabean-date, theory, originally advanced by a third-century C.E. anti-Christian philosopher named Porphyry.

17. (noun) The Baldacchino, with sculptures of the 12th or early 13th century, is borne by four ancient columns of porphyry, with 9th-century capitals.

18. Consistence between isotopic model age of lead ore and intrusion age of quartz porphyry shows close relations among structure movements, magmatism and mineralization in Stage of Yenshan

19. Porphyry in outdoor use shows all its exceptional technical qualities that make it the strongest frost-resistant stone extracted in Europe, withstanding both acids and temperature shock.

20. The dacitic rocks associated with the porphyry copper-gold mineralization have porphyritic textures with phenocrysts of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, and very rare amphibole in a fine-grained feldspathic groundmass.

21. Porphyry copper-gold mineralization consists mainly of disseminated and/or vein-related chalcopyrite within the central potassic alteration zone which also hosts the highest gold grades (up to 2 ppm).

22. The fracture of a shear fault containing several unbroken Asperities in a granitic porphyry is examined in detail via acoustic emission (AE) data collected by a high-speed multi-channel waveform recording system

23. Later on, at 20°C, its effects appear clearly by a much slower strength increase when the aggregate has a rather “acid” character (silica and porphyry), - angularity of particle: the influence of crushing is rather of little weight.

24. 6 There were linen, fine cotton, and blue material held fast in ropes of fine fabric, purple wool in silver rings, pillars of marble, and couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, pearl, and black marble.

25. Chalcopyrite ore occurs in a variety of ore types, from huge masses as at Timmins, Ontario, to irregular veins and disseminations associated with granitic to dioritic intrusives as in the porphyry copper deposits of Broken Hill, the American cordillera and the Andes.

26. Achirite Dioptase Adamantine Spar Silky brown sapphire Adinol A silicified porphyry or diabase Aeroides Pale sky-blue aquamarine Agaphite Vitreous variety of Persian turquoise Agstein Jet Alabaster, Oriental Calcite onyx Alalite Diopside Alaska black diamond Hematite Alaska jade Pectolite Alexandnte Sapphire Corundum Almandine spine!

27. Plotinus and the Orient: Aoristos dyas Vishwa Adluri One form it was previously, which again became fourfold … (Mah¯abh¯arata 12.321.16c)1 In his Vita Plotini, Porphyry tells us that, at the age of twenty-seven, Plotinus was seized by a passion for philosophy

28. The spatial arrangement of the tungsten molybdenum zones, intrusive styles, rock compositions, and composite nature of the rhyolite porphyry stock suggest that this deposit is of the Climax type.Brecciating fluids emanating from the stock were regulated by a highly metamorphosed layer of shale, now preserved as a hornfels.

29. Biotites in fresh magmatic samples from igneous systems genetically related to significant mineralization (dominantly porphyry copper type) form a population with average chlorine and fluorine contents greater than and average copper content less than the average of the remaining barren intrusive systems (at the 90 percent confidence level).