They consist in great part of diallage rocks and serpentine, and of an amygdaloid with calcareous kernels, and a base of serpentine.
The greyish blue amygdaloid contains fendilated crystals of pyroxene and mesotype.
Before it shows itself as a separate stratum, rising in small conic hills, the amygdaloid seems to alternate by layers with the diorite, which we have mentioned above as mixed with carburetted slate and amphibolic serpentine.
I have never yet seen a rock in which this earth was so abundant as in the amygdaloid of Scuir More.
The tops of the hills are often crowned with basaltic columns, and a soft porous amygdaloid abounds on the outskirts of the Mexican valley.
It is tetzontli, the porous amygdaloid which abounds among the porphyritic hills, a beautiful building-stone, easily worked, and durable.
The soil was mixed with pebbles of vesicular trap, probably amygdaloid with the kernels decomposed, and containing particles of olivine.
The amygdaloid has very long pores, like the superior strata of the lavas of Vesuvius, arising probably from the action of an elastic fluid forcing its way through the matter in fusion.
Cordier found at Teneriffe xeolite in anamygdaloid which covers the basalts of La Punta di Naga.
The amygdaloidal masses contained in theamygdaloid are either entirely pistacite (epidote), or pistacite enclosing calc-spar.
Some fragments of amygdaloidwere strewed along the bed of the stream, but we saw no more of that rock, or of the other members of the fletz trap formation in place.
Amygdaloid benzoin consists chiefly of white pieces, becoming, later on, brownish, of a waxy lustre and imbedded in a lustrous brown-red resinous mass.
The rock here might have been taken for decomposed amygdaloid but, having found the vestiges of an old crater in the summit of the hill, I was induced to consider it an ancient lava.
Vesicular lava and amygdaloid are the chief ingredients of some of the best parts of Australia Felix.
Such are its hornblendic, sienite, quartz, trap, and amygdaloid pebbles, and that variety of the quartz family which assumes the form of the agate and other kindred species.
Masses of the two former minerals were also found imbedded in amygdaloid and trap-rock, thus denoting the parent beds of rock.
In globular or orbicular masses, in amygdaloid rock.
We spent forty-two and a half hours, paddling at the rate of five miles an hour, in coming from Linyanti to the confluence; there we found a dike of amygdaloid lying across the Leeambye.
This amygdaloidwith analami and mesotype contains crystals, which the water gradually dissolves, leaving the rock with a worm-eaten appearance.
Observed amygdaloidunder foot among the granite, and sandstone boulders.
Balls of this amygdaloid are enclosed in the grunstein; and this grunstein alternates on one side with a green slate, on the other with the serpentine of Tucutunemo.
I found no real basalt or dolerite; but the presence of pyroxene in the amygdaloid of Parapara leaves little doubt of the igneous origin of those spheroidal masses, fissured, and full of cavities.
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