How To Use micaceous In A Sentence
- Everything cooked in micaceous clay pots comes out sweet. One Big Table
- Fragments of granite have been observed at Teneriffe; the island of Gomora, from the details furnished me by M. Broussonnet, contains a nucleus of micaceous schist: — the quartz disseminated in the sand, which we found on the shore of Graciosa, is a different substance from the lavas and the trappean porphyries so intimately connected with volcanic productions. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- So much for the western line; in the Portillo pass, proceeding eastward, we meet an immense mass of conglomerate, dipping to the west 45 deg, which rest on micaceous sandstone, etc., etc., upheaved and converted into quartz-rock penetrated by dykes from the very grand mass of protogine (large crystals of quartz, red feldspar, and occasional little chlorite). More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
- Impressive blades and masses of lustrous micaceous hematite occur in localized quartz veins, and reniform goethite is found in the walls.
- This condition is characterized by thick, red plaque with a white, silvery micaceous scale on top. Simple Skin Beauty
- It is rust of iron, finely crystallised: from its resemblance to mica, it is often called micaceous iron. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
- I have always regarded specular hematite as a micaceous or platy form that would be very difficult to fashion into beads.
- a kind of micaceous schist, and in the western is granitic gneiss. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884
- The clasts range from angular to subrounded and show a weak preferred orientation when elongate; they include micaceous siltstone, fine-grained sandstone, tuffaceous rock, andesite and medium-grained diorite.
- The clasts range from angular to subrounded and show a weak preferred orientation when elongate; they include micaceous siltstone, fine-grained sandstone, tuffaceous rock, andesite and medium-grained diorite.
