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siliceous

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or containing or resembling silica
    gritrock is siliceous sandstone

How To Use siliceous In A Sentence

  • This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • It is only the inferior and more siliceous beds that are lapidified.
  • We collected excellent crystals of tetrahedrite to 5 mm scattered on drusy quartz from a zone in the siliceous envelope of the orebody.
  • These stones are more sensitive to acid than siliceous ones. Protect Your Investment: Stone Countertops
  • Quartz is the dominant mineral in veins in siliceous rocks, calcite in limestones, and gypsum in gypsiferous sediments.
  • The ore is mineralogically martite schist, and the enclosing rocks are grayish, greenish and pinkish siliceous schists, of probable eruptive origin. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • It occurred as a fine-grained siliceous vein filling and as discrete, clear, tiny crystals in vugs.
  • The 7-35 m thick tuff is massive, rhyodacitic, K-feldsparrich and contains abundant siliceous nodules; it is interpreted as an ignimbrite.
  • Diatoms have non-growing siliceous shells and thus need silicate for growth while dinoflagellates move by the action of tail-like projections called flagella. General description of the Arctic biota
  • Quartz is the dominant mineral in veins in siliceous rocks, calcite in limestones, and gypsum in gypsiferous sediments.
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