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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HORNFELS

German: literally, horn rock.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HORNFELS

hornfels  [ˈhɔːnfɛlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORNFELS

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Hornfels is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HORNFELS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Hornfels

Hornfels is called so because of its exceptional toughness and texture both reminiscent of animal horns. These properties are due to a fine grained non-aligned crystals with platy or prismatic habits. Hornfels 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 exceedingly tough and durable. Hornfels rocks were referred to by miners in northern England as whetstones. Most hornfels are fine-grained, and while the original rocks may have been more or less fissile owing to the presence of bedding or cleavage planes, this structure is effaced or rendered inoperative in the hornfels. Though they may show banding, due to bedding, etc., they break across this as readily as along it; in fact, they tend to separate into cubical fragments rather than into thin plates. The most common hornfels are dark-brown to black with a somewhat velvety luster owing to the abundance of small crystals of shining black mica. The lime hornfels are often white, yellow, pale-green, brown and other colors.

Definition of hornfels in the English dictionary

The definition of hornfels in the dictionary is a hard compact fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat from a magmatic intrusion on neighbouring sedimentary rocks Also called: hornstone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HORNFELS


bells
bɛlz
coralbells
ˈkɒrəlˌbɛlz
Dardanelles
ˌdɑːdəˈnɛlz
Kells
kɛlz
Welles
wɛlz
Wells
wɛlz
wind-bells
ˈwɪndˌbɛlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORNFELS

horned owl
horned poppy
horned pout
horned toad
horned viper
hornedness
horner
hornet
hornet clearwing
hornet´s nest
hornful
horngeld
hornier
horniest
hornily
horniness
hornish
hornist
hornito
hornless

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORNFELS

alloy wheels
bowels
Brussels
communication channels
cool one´s heels
cracked heels
Engels
flannels
Goebbels
goods and chattels
head over heels
heels
high heels
kennels
Novels
revels
steels
travels
Wels
wheels

Synonyms and antonyms of hornfels in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hornfels» into 25 languages

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角岩
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роговик
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hornfels
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hornfels
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cornéenne
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Hornfels
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Hornfels
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ホルンフェルス
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hornfels
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Hornfels
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hornfels
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hornfels
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हॉर्नफेल
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hornfels
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hornfels
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hornfels
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рогівки
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hornfels
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κερατίτη
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Translator English - Afrikaans

horingfels
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hornfels
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hornfels
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORNFELS»

The term «hornfels» is normally little used and occupies the 123.223 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HORNFELS» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORNFELS»

Discover the use of hornfels in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hornfels and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
The initial metamorphism appears as a zone of coarsely crystalline hornfels adjacent to the tonalite contact. Close to the contact, biotite forms large (1 mm) sieve-textured porphyroblasts but in the outer hornfels it occurs as small (0.2 mm)  ...
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U.S. Geological Survey professional paper
The color difference between the pelitic hornfels and calc- hornfels beds is caused by the presence of much fine carbonaceous material in the pelitic hornfels. Light-colored calc-hornfels layers generally have wavy contacts with the contiguous ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1965
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Contact metamorphism in the Merrick Mountains corresponds to Turner's (1968) hornblende-hornfels facies. PLUTONIC ROCKS The northern and northeastern two-thirds of the Merrick Mountains are underlain by a composite, concen- ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1988
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Geological Survey Bulletin
450 m wide. The width of this aureole suggests that the batholith- Kalabak contact dips at a shallow angle to the east; Typically, the batholith metamorphoses the phyllite of the sequence of Kalabak to a hornblende-quartz- orthoclase hornfels of ...
‎1949
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
170; acidic 171; basic 172; olivine nodules 173; xenolith 174; kimberlite 175; cromaltite 176; ophicalcite 177 (a) Pelitic hornfels 201-209 pelitic hornfels (undiff. ) 201; spotted slate 202; spotted schist 203; cordierite 204; andalusite 205; ...
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Earth Materials
or less. Ocean spreading centers represent regionally extensive zones of hydrothermal metamorphism that produce hornfels facies rocks on a large scale, effectively altering entire ocean basins. The four types of hornfels facies are named for ...
Kevin Hefferan, John O'Brien, 2010
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Rock-Forming Minerals: Orthosilicates, Volume 1A:
quartz- muscovite hornfels to sillimanite-cordierite-perthite-biotite- quartz - almandine hornfels occurs in a metamorphic septum near the southern end of the Sierra Nevada, east of Isabella, California (Best and Weiss, 1964); an analysis of the ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 1982
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Radioactivity and Uranium Content, Sharon Springs Member of ...
The only hornfels in the Mescal noted by the writers is just above the diabase contact about a mile southwest of the Red Bluff mine. Shride (oral communication , 1954) has noted similar hornfels in both formations at several other localities.
Edwin Robert Landis, 1959
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Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World
Some of these rocks look homogeneous to the naked eye; however, they show a fine clastic structure at higher magnification. In several cases, outcrops of hornfels occur in the uppermost part of the olive unit. These are dark, dense, massive, ...
Glenn B. Stracher, 2007
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The Evolution of the Rheic Ocean: From Avalonian-Cadomian ...
Sample Rock type Sample location Coordinates 753 Cordierite hornfels Spitzberg, Schwosdorf r5431130 h5682450 754 Granodiorite Spitzberg, Schwosdorf r5431160 h5682400 755 Graywacke Bischheim-Häslich r5432230 h5679700 756 ...
Ulf Linnemann, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORNFELS»

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Avrupa Drills 57.35 Meters of 2.09 g/t Gold at Slivovo
Proximal to the dikes, alteration is characterized by hornfels and skarnoid formation, associated with elevated copper values. Distal to the dikes, alteration is ... «Junior Mining Network, Jun 15»
2
Silver Spruce Signs Letter of Agreement to Purchase Epithermal …
Above the altered volcanics, calcareous limestone, sandstones and hornfels formations have been hydrothermally altered and mineralized. «MarketWatch, Jun 15»
3
Northair Releases Results of Airborne Geophysical Program on La …
The Company believes this linear magnetic low represents alteration superimposed on hornfels sediments along a north to northwest trending ... «Azomining, Jun 15»
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Northair Silver Airborne Geophysical Survey Identifies New Drill …
The Company believes this linear magnetic low represents alteration superimposed on hornfels sediments along a north to northwest trending ... «MarketWatch, Jun 15»
5
Guerrero Identifies Additional Target Areas With 2014 Airborne …
The survey has resulted in one Priority 1 target located southwest of the Punto Rojo - Hornfels Hill magnetic linear, three Priority 2 areas ... «Canadian Mining Journal, May 15»
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Eurasian Minerals Reports Initial Resource Estimate and Project …
For example, at Valley, this style of alteration and mineralization is developed to the southeast in shallow hornfels host rocks that occur from ... «Canadian Mining Journal, May 15»
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Coral Receives Notice from Barrick Gold on Gold Ridge Exploration …
Most of the higher gold values (≥0.34 ppm) occur in retrograde-altered calc-silicate hornfels suggesting both a spatial and genetic relation to ... «Canadian Mining Journal, May 15»
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Bet on junior gold mining stocks
Importantly, the gold intercept was hosted entirely in oxidized hornfels breccia, representing the most significant oxidized gold mineralization ... «Mineweb, Apr 15»
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Now is the Time to Buy Resource Stocks, Especially Gold Equities
Importantly, the gold intercept was hosted entirely in oxidized hornfels breccia, representing the most significant oxidized gold mineralization ... «The Market Oracle, Apr 15»
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Southern Silver Exploration – Acquisition, Exploration and …
... often tens of metres thick, of silicification, pyritic sulphides, and variable skarn alteration and hornfels in five of the nine core holes which tested the property. «Silver Investing News, Feb 15»

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