felspathic
Americanadjective
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The bed of the river furnished quite a collection of primitive rocks: there were pebbles of quartz, white, red, and grey; of granite; of sienite; of felspathic porphyry, hornblende, and quartz-porphyry; and of slate-rock.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
The cement of the sandstones is often felspathic; for this reason they yield useful porcelain clays in the Thuringerwald.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
The same felspathic rock seen in other parts of this great basin, seems the basis of the clay, although the fragments imbedded are very hard.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas
The hills behind consisted in the higher parts of a felspathic conglomerate and clay-slate dipping to the eastward.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas
Thus there may be produced from the same granite, soils of very different nature and composition, from a pure and barren sand to a rich clay formed entirely of felspathic debris.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Anderson, Thomas
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