The stones of which the dolmen is composed are diorite, and the material of which the tools were fashioned is the silex in the granite fused by a dyke of diorite which has run it into flint clots.
The presence of quartz or diorite in the neighbourhood can always be recognised by the employment of one or the other to metal the roads.
Dykes of quartz and diorite have traversed the schist and granite, and the face of the country is spotted with eruptions of igneous matter.
It is as though the crust had been full of blowholes through which the molten diorite had rushed to the surface.
On three diorite bowls found in these graves (one inside the walls, the others outside) the name of Sneferu appeared.
The chamber was empty, but under the flat stone were found fragments of a slate dish, of an alabaster table, and of four diorite bowls.
A small diorite bowl stood near the head of the coffin, and a common alabaster vase in the earth above it.
Between the coffin and the side of the chamber was a diorite bowl; south of this were two vertical jars and a circular table, all of alabaster.
The bronze and stone objects from Ka-mena of the time of Sneferu, with whose name the flat diorite bowl below was inscribed.
Greenstone” may be diorite or diabase, or it may be a very compact dark sandstone or quartzite so weathered that its nature can not be determined from superficial observation.
A similar diorite was found by me amongst the blocks in the bed of the Vunimbua River; and on page 185, reference is made to the probability of such rocks forming the nucleus of the Valanga Range.
The diorite forming blocks in the agglomerate of the coast cliffs, west of the Salt Lake Passage, is a remarkable rock showing large blackish hornblende crystals, in the shape of blades 25 mm.
The block of diorite affords an important clue as to the character of the deep-seated plutonic rocks in this part of the island.
Amongst those in the river above the village I noticed a solitary block of a coarsely crystalline diorite containing prisms of brown hornblende a centimetre in length.
It is true that the exposure of the gabbros is limited and that only a single block of diorite came under my notice; but this might be looked for where the plutonic rocks are deeply seated.
Tyrrell reports a dark grey, rather fine-grained diorite or uralitic diabase, probably forming part of a large dyke cutting the gneiss.
He operated on a piece of hard diorite an inch and three-eighths in thickness, and employed as a drilling agent a wooden wand of ash, or at times, of pine, in conjunction with sharp quartz sand.
The process of boring holes of large diameter in hard rocks such as diorite and basalt by means of tubes was in common use among the Egyptians.
Such rocks as basalt, diorite and trachyte are comparatively rare.
The study of the alabaster and diorite vases found near the pyramids has furnished Petrie with very ingenious views on the methods among the Egyptians of working hard stone.
Short, heavy pestles with broad bases and conical tops, made of gray diorite or sandstone.
In the fore-court of this same temple, some fragments of a diorite sculpture with small figures similar to those of the Khammurabi period were found.
We possess a small diorite statue of this ruler, which, like most of those found at Tello, is without its head.
This fact is illustrated by the two black diorite heads of statuettes figured on the following page.
That he was Dungi's contemporary is known from an inscription upon a votive wig and headdress in the British Museum, which is made of diorite and was intended for a female statuette.
Diorite statue of Gudea, represented as the architect of the temple of Gatumdug VIII.
Of the artistic productions of Gudea's period the most striking that have come down to us are the series of dioritestatues of himself, which were found together in the late palace at Tello.
The most remarkable of these is a diorite statuette of a woman, the upper part of which has been preserved.
On this point the later tradition has been strikingly confirmed by the discovery at Susa of the base of a diorite statue of the king, on which it is recorded that he conquered Magan and slew Mani[.
A diorite statuette, referable by its style and inscription to Dynasty XIII.
In one canoe was found a diorite hatchet, and at the bottom of another, a cork bung, which certainly implies relations with southern France, Spain, or Italy.
One of the diggings contained some great diorite hatchets which were worked by the aid of a handle, and also large cylindrical masses of the same substance hollowed out to receive a handle.
Ujfalvy has brought diorite and serpentine hatchets and wedges from the south of Siberia, and Count Ouvaroff tells us of a Quaternary deposit, the only one known at present at Irkutsk, in Eastern Siberia, containing cut flints.
At Olleria, in the kingdom of Valencia, at Xeres de la Frontera, we find diorite hatchets, and in Algeria vases filled with the shells of land mollusca.
In one of these boats was a dioritehatchet of the kind characteristic of Neolithic times; another, the wood of which was perfectly black, had become as hard as marble, and in it was a cork plug.
The weapons and implements found included haematite and diorite projectiles used in slings, stone hatchets, and hammers pierced to receive handles, flint saws and obsidian knives.
The arm had been almost separated from the trunk by the blow of a diorite hatchet, a broken bit of which remained imbedded in the bone.
An important find by de Sarzec was that of the diorite statues of Gudea, the Patesi or Ruler of Lagash, about 2700 B.
For statistical purposes, the United States Geological Survey has also included small quantities of diorite and gabbro.
Contact metamorphism along both the quartz-porphyry and the diorite contacts was practically lacking.
At Juneau, Alaska, great dikes of albite-diorite intrude greenstones and schists, and low-grade gold ores occur in shattered portions of the diorite.
A later series of small diorite or andesite dikes cut the ore bodies.
Gabbro appears on the shore north of Lendalfoot, while on the Byne and Grey Hills south of Girvan there are patches of granite and quartz-diorite which seem to pass into more basic varieties.
Again Chaldæan in origin, although of far later date, is a small diorite fragment of bas-relief called the bas-relief of the Spinner.
Though the head and arms are still the work of half-trained artists, the head is very remarkable; the arch of the eyebrows and the eyes are treated as in the largediorite statues; the hair is completely shaved.
In the example we give here, the figure is holding a bird with both hands, the head is completely shaved as in the diorite statues from the palace of Gudea (see p.
To the number of ten, they are of blackish diorite with a bluish tinge; all are headless and bear inscriptions in the name of Gudea or of Ur-Bau.
This shows, that the Egyptians worked the quarries of diorite at Sinai and sculptured in it, about 4000 B.
This statue, a full sized portrait-statue, is made of green dioritehighly polished and is a magnificent work of Egyptian art.
They also used lathes at a most archaic period in cutting diorite and other hard stones.
An enstatite-augite-diorite is sent from Alderney for road-making.
Hornblende gneiss from St Sampson and quartzdiorite from Capelles, Corvee and elsewhere are transported to England for road metal.
The plutonic masses are represented by the granite of Ben Cruachan, by the diorite of Gleann Domhainn, and by the kentallenite (a basic rock related to the monxonites), near Ballachulish.
Sheets of quartz-porphyry, lamprophyre and diorite are also represented, the first of these types being quarried at Crarae on the north shore of Loch Fyne.
Great masses of granite, syenite and diorite were intruded at this period, and send tongues even into the andesitic tuffs.
It was out of this diorite that the statues were cut.
In his time building-materials were brought to Chaldaea from all parts of Western Asia; thus cedar beams were imported from Mount Amanus, and diorite from the land of Magan.
The diorite of Sinai was not the only material which was imported into Babylonia for the buildings of Gudea.
Diorite statues of the prince are now in the Louvre, and inscriptions upon them state that the stone out of which they were made was brought from the land of Magan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diorite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
