Hornstone

  • 21Hornfels — (German, meaning hornstone ) is the group designation for a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases… …

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  • 23Frank Luther Mott — (April 4, 1886 October 23, 1964 in Columbia, Missouri) was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent. He taught at the University of Iowa (UI) for twenty years until his appointment as Dean of the University of Missouri (MU) s School …

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  • 24chert — noun a) Massive generally dull colored and usually opaque quartzite or hornstone or impure chalcedony or other flint like mineral. By general usage in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. In North American… …

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  • 25Dalry —    1) DALRY, a manufacturing town and parish, in the district of Cunninghame, county of Ayr, 5 miles (S. W.) from Beith, and 7 (N. N. E.) from Saltcoats; containing 4791 inhabitants. This place derives its name, in the Gaelic language signifying… …

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  • 26Eccles —    ECCLES, a parish, in the county of Berwick, 6 miles (W. by N.) from Coldstream; containing, with the villages of Leitholm and Birgham, 1946 inhabitants. The name of this parish is derived from the classical word signifying a church, supposed… …

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  • 27chert — n. Hornstone, rock flint, petrosilex …

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  • 28роговик — кремень — [Англо русский геммологический словарь. Красноярск, КрасБерри. 2007.] Тематики геммология и ювелирное производство Синонимы кремень EN hornstone …

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  • 29hornfels — noun a fine grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks • Syn: ↑hornstone • Hypernyms: ↑metamorphic rock …

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  • 30metamorphic rock — noun rock altered by pressure and heat • Hypernyms: ↑rock, ↑stone • Hyponyms: ↑amphibolite, ↑marlite, ↑marlstone, ↑hornfels, ↑hornstone, ↑gneiss …

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