I bored to 3 feet 8 inches with a heavy iron jumper through an alluvium of such excessive tenacity, that eight natives were employed for four hours in the operation.
Numerous Cerealia, and the varieties of cotton, sugar-cane, etc.
Some large spots were green with wheat and barley-crops, both suffering from smut.
The elephant's path is an excellent specimen of engineering--the opposite of the native track, for it winds judiciously.
Descending, the rocks became more micaceous, with broad seams of pipe-clay, originating in decomposed beds of felspathic gneiss: the natives used this to whitewash and mortar their temples.
In some places torrents of stone were carried down by landslips, obstructing the rivers; when in the beds of streams, they were often cemented by felspathic clay into a hard breccia of angular quartz, gneiss, and felspar nodules.
The monks were busy repairing the part devoted to worship, which consists of a large chamber and vestibule of the usual form: the outside walls are daubed red, with a pigment of burnt felspathic clay, which is dug hard by.
In certain localities, beds or narrow seams of pure felspathicclay and layers of vegetable matter occur in it, probably wholly due to local causes.
I collected, in the dry bed of a stream near it, a curious white substance like thick felt, formed of felspathic silt (no doubt the product of glacial streams) and the siliceous cells of infusoriae.
The women draw a fringed blue cloth tightly across the breast, and wear a checked or striped petticoat.
The bed of the river is here considerably above that at Dearee, where the mean of the observations with those of Baroon, made it about 300 feet.
Thomson, to a greenish-white felspathic mineral found in a boulder near Bytown (now the city of Ottawa) in Ontario, but this material was later shown on microscopical examination to be a mixture.
They consist chiefly of granulitic quartzose schists and felspathic gneisses, permeated in places by strings and veins of pegmatite.
In some instances the felspar so predominates as almost to exclude the other minerals, when it is called felspathic granite.
In the Perthshire soil it is obvious that the felspathic element has been abundant, and that its decomposition has been arrested at a time, when it still contained a large quantity of alkalies.
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.
The Bristol porcelain, like that of Plymouth, was always a true felspathic porcelain resembling the Chinese, but made from the china clay and china stone of Cornwall.
A similar clay, to which large quantities of sand are added, may be glazed by the vapours of common salt; and mixtures rich in felspar, like Chinese or European porcelain, can be glazed by melting felspathic materials upon them.
The Chinese appear to have been the first potters in the world to discover that at a sufficiently high temperature pottery can be glazed with powdered felspathic rock mixed with lime.
The Swedish porcelains were of two kinds, one a true felspathic porcelain like the German, and the other a glassy porcelain resembling that made at Mennecy in France.
For the glaze the purest and cleanest portions of the felspathic rock (petuntse) were selected and mixed with lime--all being ground to fine powder.
The acid in the water may have been absorbed from the atmosphere, or it may be due to vapours rising from below through the felspathic material.
He classifies these under four heads: (1) Kaolinization, or the decomposition of felspathic and similar rocks by the action of telluric water containing active gases in solution.
As explained in Chapter III, the china clays or kaolins may usually be regarded as primary clays derived from granitic or other felspathic or felsitic rocks by chemical decomposition.
At the south-western extremity of the Lower Lickey Range the quartzites contain fragments of igneous rocks, and appear to pass down into a series of felspathic grits, pierced by dioritic dykes similar to those of the Nuneaton District.
For the felspathic rocks are universally distributed, constituting, as they do, so large a proportion of the volcanic, plutonic, and metamorphic formations.
The trap rocks alluded to consist chiefly of felspathic porphyry and amygdaloid, the kernels of the latter being sometimes calcareous, often calcedonic, and forming beautiful agates.
Different felspathic and porphyritic rocks and greenstones occur, not only in dikes, but in conformable beds; and there is occasionally a passage from these igneous rocks to some of the green quartzose slates.
Clinkstone or phonolite is a greenish-gray, compact, felspathic rock, somewhat slaty or schistose, and weathers with a white crust.
Porphyrite or felspathite includes a number of rocks which have a felspathic base, through which felspar crystals are scattered more or less abundantly.
When mica or felspar occurs plentifully, we have, in the one case, micaceous sandstone, and in the other felspathic sandstone.
There are several specimens formed of felspathic rocks, and from various localities in Shetland, preserved in the British Museum.
Other instances have been cited by General Pitt Rivers,[1207] who found several rough flakes and splinters of grit and felspathic ash in cairns near Bangor, North Wales.
It is made of some felspathic rock, and is no less than 14 5∕8 inches in length.
They are never formed of flint; the principal materials of which they are made being slate and compact greenstone, porphyry, and other felspathic rocks, and madreporite.
It is of felspathic ash, much decomposed on the surface, and 9 inches long.
The edge at that end, which is almost semicircular in outline, has suffered from ill-usage since it was discovered; the material of which it is made beingfelspathic ash, the surface of which has become soft by decomposition.
Felspathic clay is exemplified in the parian of Copeland, Minton, and Worcester.
Artificial porcelain may be made from alkaline clay, calcareous clay, or felspathic clay.
Beyond, there was a noble reach of water in a rocky bed, traversed by a dyke of felspathic rock, which exhibited a tendency to break into irregular polygons, some of the faces of which were curved; its strike was E.
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.
The felspathic lavas, with their associated beds of tuff and breccia, rise into some of the grandest mountain crests of North Wales, such as those of Cader Idris, Aran Mowddwy, Arenig and Moel Wyn.
A basic variety of felstone-porphyry, consisting of a felspathic base with distinct crystals of felspar, with which there may be others of hornblende, mica, or augite.
The tuff consists of white felspathic mud, with fragments of slate and lava, reaching a depth in some places of 150 feet.
In Ayrshire, and in the western parts of Devonshire, beds of felspathic porphyry, felstone and ash are interstratified with strata believed to be of Permian age.
The whole country from the large flat to our camp, was composed of felspathic porphyry, containing crystals of felspar, and accidentally of quartz, in a paste varying in colour and hardness.
Wallabies were very numerous between the cliffs of the felspathic rock; and the fine fig trees along the banks of the river were covered with ripe fruit.
A felspathicrock cropped out near the second creek, where I met with a dark rock, composed of felspar and horneblende (Diorite.
The Burdekin here comes from the westward, and made a large bend round several mountains, composed of quartz porphyry, with a sub-crystalline felspathic paste.
Pebbles of felspathicporphyry were found in the river's bed.
Two miles farther, the bed of the river was formed by a felspathic rock, with beautiful dendrites.
Now, the course followed by the Criffel erratics is crossed at an acute angle by the path pursued by many boulders of Eskdale granite, and various felspathic rocks derived from the Cumberland mountains.
The mineral called felspar is usually scattered more or less abundantly through the matrix or base, which itself is composed principally of felspathic materials.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felspathic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
