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granitic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | granitelike, rocklike, stony |
| Derivation | granite |
a granitic fist.
Examples of granitic
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The granitic islands began to appear on Portuguese charts as the Seven Sisters.
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The samples were from sheared mafic volcanics with pegmatitic granitic dykes.
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Meanwhile, the bartender pours us a glass of cool granitic Semillon from Australia.
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A granitic rock with a porphyritic texture is sometimes known as a porphyry.
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There is a winding granitic gravel path but otherwise it is almost entirely planted.
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Aplite dikes are fine grained or sugary textured intrusives of granitic composition.
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Granitic magma has many potential origins but it must intrude other rocks.
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It is a monument-but like a monument, it has a ponderous, granitic quality.
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Numerous granitic intrusions dated at around 500 Ma are also attributed to this event.
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- Flinty: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- Hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
- Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites usually have a medium to coarse grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals (phenocrysts) are larger than the groundmass in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. ...
- General term for all light-colored, granite-like igneous rocks.
- Composed of granite or granite-like rock; a textural term applied to coarse- and medium-grained, granular igneous rocks. Often used to describe a tempering medium of Native American ceramics.
- Made of granite or other light colored plutonic rock with a composition approaching granite.
- A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica. Used in monuments and for building. Some islands are also granitic.
- Having characteristics of granite
