10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRANITIFICATION»
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The Nature and Origin of Granite
Keilhau had already introduced the concepts of metamorphism and
metasomatism, and now put forward a thesis of transmutation of the country rocks
by a process of 'granitification'. This Lyell countered by invoking forceful intrusion,
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The Granite Controversy: Geological Addresses Illustrating ...
Virlet introduces the term granitification with the following statement : 'Le
transmutation des roches sedimentaires en granite, ou leur granitification, pour
employer un mot qui caracterise le phenomena, n'est donc pas plus difficile a
admettre ...
Herbert Harold Read,
1957
It was becoming apparent that the process of granitification of Proto- Mayan
language had its duplicate in the granitification of the very faces of the modern
inhabitants of the ancient city of Piccu Carlu. The question, Arnold, is whether or
not, ...
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
Granitification, gra-nit-c-fe-ka'shun, $. The act of being formed into granite.
Granitiform, gra-nit'e-fawrm, a. Resembling granite in structure or shape.
Gramtine, gran'e-tine, ». An aggregate of three mineral constituents, one or more
differing from ...
John Craig (F.G.S.),
1859
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
If, according to this hypothesis, clay-slate, by the process of granitification, is
formed into granite and syenite, and sandstone, by the same chemical powers,
into porphyry, while the component parts, in the original mass, are not the same
in ...
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Dictionary of English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
Granitification, -e-fe-ka'-shtln, s. The for- Granitiform, -e-form, a. 2G. = granitoid,
gran'-It-oyd, 22. Res. granite. Granivorous, grd-uIv'-o-ruB, a. Grain-eating. Grant,
grant, grdnt— We., s. 9. The act of granting or bestowing, also the thing granted
or ...
Arnold James Cooley,
1861
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A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing ...
Gunmen, gra-nit'e-kul, a. Consisting of granite; composed of granite.
GRANITIFICATION, gra-nit-e-fe-ka'shun, :. The act of being formed into granite. 1
GKANITIFORM, gra-nit'e-fawrm, a. Resembling granite in structure or shape.
GRANITINE ...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ... Edinburgh, Constable ...
... distinguished chemist grants the existence of chemical actions in solid bodies,
but he does not believe that the force operating in them has performed so
important a part as I must suppose, in admitting the successive granitification of
slates, ...
9
Sciences of the Earth: A-G
... granitification" or "granitization" were invenred hy Balrazat Mathias Keilhau (
1838) to desctihe the transformation of existing tocks, such as sedimenrs, into
granire and syenire. Adam Sedgwick (1847) nored that changes in sedimentaty
tocks ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
Nothing is more apparent to the eye than the first- mentioned kind of
metamorphosis, in which a gradually diminishing granitification can be traced
into the fossiliferous strata ; and where, on the other hand, sharp boundaries and
felspar ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRANITIFICATION»
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... hydrogen loss stage to form seas making the crust malleable to plate tectonics by modifying viscosity such as by helping granitification along. «Discover Magazine, Sep 10»