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PRONUNCIATION OF FELSITIC

felsitic  [fɛlˈsɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FELSITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Felsitic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FELSITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

felsitic

Felsite

Felsite is a very fine grained volcanic rock that may or may not contain larger crystals. Felsite is a field term for a light colored rock that typically requires petrographic examination or chemical analysis for more precise definition. Color is generally white through light gray, or red to tan and may include any color except dark gray, green or black. The mass of the rock consists of a fine-grained matrix of felsic materials, particularly quartz, sodium and potassium feldspar, and may be termed a quartz felsite or quartz porphyry if the quartz phenocrysts are present. This rock is typically of extrusive origin, formed by compaction of fine volcanic ash, and may be found in association with obsidian and rhyolite. In some cases, it is sufficiently fine-grained for use in making stone tools. Its fine texture and felsic components allow for good knapped pieces, much like working chert, producing conchoidal fracture. Dendritic manganese oxides such as pyrolusite and/or iron oxides such as limonite may precipitate along rock crevices, giving some rock chunk surfaces multicolored or arborescent patterned textures.

Definition of felsitic in the English dictionary

The definition of felsitic in the dictionary is of or relating to felstite.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FELSITIC


antiparasitic
ˌæntɪˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
ascitic
əˈsɪtɪk
astrocytic
ˌæstrəˈsɪtɪk
calcitic
kælˈsɪtɪk
ectoparasitic
ˌektəʊˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
endocytic
ˌɛndəʊˈsɪtɪk
erythrocytic
ɪˌrɪθrəʊˈsɪtɪk
exocytic
ˌɛksəʊˈsɪtɪk
granulocytic
ˌɡrænjʊləˈsɪtɪk
histiocytic
ˌhɪstɪəˈsɪtɪk
leukocytic
ˌluːkəˈsɪtɪk
lymphocytic
ˌlɪmfəʊˈsɪtɪk
macrocytic
ˌmækrəʊˈsɪtɪk
megakaryocytic
ˌmeɡəˌkærɪəˈsɪtɪk
microcytic
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɪtɪk
microfelsitic
ˌmaɪkrəʊfɛlˈsɪtɪk
monocytic
ˌmɒnəˈsɪtɪk
myelocytic
ˌmaɪələʊˈsɪtɪk
parasitic
ˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
phagocytic
ˌfæɡəˈsɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FELSITIC

felonious
feloniously
feloniousness
felonous
felonries
felonry
felony
felos de se
felsic
felsite
felspar
felspathic
felspathoid
felspathose
felstone
felt
felt hat
felt pen
felt tip
felt-tip pen

WORDS THAT END LIKE FELSITIC

andesitic
anorthositic
anti-Semitic
apositic
critic
dendritic
endoparasitic
exoparasitic
ferritic
glossitic
gneissitic
hemiparasitic
hyperparasitic
martensitic
microparasitic
Monophysitic
nonparasitic
politic
semiparasitic
Semitic

Synonyms and antonyms of felsitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «felsitic» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

霏细
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

felsíticas
570 millions of speakers

English

felsitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

felsitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

felsitic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фельзитовый
278 millions of speakers

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felsitic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

felsitic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

felsitique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Felsitic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

felsitic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

felsitic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

felsitic
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Translator English - Javanese

Felsitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

felsitic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

felsitic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फोल्सिटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Felsitik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

felsitic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

felsitic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фельзитового
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

felsitic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

felsitic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

felsitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

felsitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

felsitic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of felsitic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FELSITIC»

The term «felsitic» is used very little and occupies the 190.368 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FELSITIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about felsitic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FELSITIC»

Discover the use of felsitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to felsitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Felsitic Lavas of England and Wales: With an ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Frank Rutley, 2012
2
Geological Survey Professional Paper
... THE DRAKE PEAK VOLCANIC CENTER DRAKE PEAK DOME The largest of the three structural domes in the Drake Peak volcanic center is about 9 km across at its base, and the felsitic ring intrusion is exposed in its deeply eroded core.
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Geological Survey professional paper
For both types, the glass or the felsitic groundmass, made up of alkalic feldspar and a silica mineral, were formed after extrusion, when cooling was so rapid that all the feldspar material formed an apparently homogeneous feldspar.
Geological Survey (U.S.), Geological Survey (U.S.). Geographic Names Information Management, 1956
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
The rhyolite is chalky white or pale gray and, like many felsitic dike rocks, it commonly has a flow structure or sheeting parallel to the walls of the dike. Thin section examination indicates that fine-grained, altered feldspar makes up 60 to 70 ...
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Professional paper - United States Geological Survey
seams are intercalated in the felsitic flows. Still higher up near the head of the river, on Lick Creek, a succession of flows of glassy, felsitic, and tuffaceous rhyolite is met with; this came down from some point on the divide between the South ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1904
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The Copper Deposits of Michigan
A bed of the second type immediately underlies or forms the lower part of the felsitic Calumet & Hecla conglomerate but is distinct from it in character and is far more " Lane, A. C, Geological report on Isle Royale, Mich.: Michigan Oeol. Survey  ...
Bert Sylvenus Butler, Wilbur Swett Burbank, 1929
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Felsitic rock fragments are rare. The only sedimentary rock fragments seen were yellowish epidote-rich mudstone and hematite-stained siltstone. Metamorphic and hypabyssal rock fragments are almost unknown. Devitrified volcanic glass ...
8
Geological Survey Bulletin
... percent phenocrysts (san- idine:plagioclase:quartz approximately 4:2:1 plus a trace of biotite), 10-15 percent strongly flattened to stretched pumice lapilli generally 2-3 cm in longest dimension, and 2-5 percent small felsitic lithic fragments, ...
9
Temper Sands in Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery: Geotectonics, ...
VLi (Table 6) denotes the relative proportion of extrusive volcanic lithic fragments (lathwork, microlitic, felsitic, vitric) where hypabyssal microgranular fragments of intrusive igneous rock (microphanerite) are treated as non-volcanic.
William R. Dickinson, 2006
10
Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson
It is 210–245 m thick and consists of a lower interval of black, thinly interbedded argillite and limestone, 90–105 m thick, overlain by a middle interval, 45–60 m thick, of white, limonite-stained, felsitic tuffaceous sandstone, which is overlain by  ...
James Earl Wright, John W. Shervais, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FELSITIC»

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Odzun Saint Mariam Astvatsatsin Church being restored
Felsitic type tuf is set to be used during recovery works of columns , the slopes and hood in their turn will be covered by red andesitic basalt . «Armenpress.am, Aug 12»
2
The demand on Armenian tuff reduced
... Ani (yellow, orange), Artik (pink, purple), Yerevan (black, red), Byurakan (pink, black spots, dark gray, black spots ) and felsitic type (figured). «Armenpress.am, Jun 12»
3
Tanzania Minerals Corp. acquires three new gold licences
The property is underlain by intermediate-mafic volcanic rocks, banded iron formations and sheared carbonated- felsitic and chloritic schist, ... «Canada NewsWire, Feb 12»

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