They are formed of small grains of transparent quartz more or less cemented one to the other in a manner strongly resembling those of the saccharoid limestone.
It may even be observed to be metamorphosed into an aggregate of microscopic crystals, and finally to pass into a white saccharoid limestone.
The siliceous beds accompanying the saccharoid limestone have, in short, a character of their own.
Besides these, various minerals in veins figure among those which exist more commonly in the saccharoid limestone.
The action of basalt upon limestone is observable at Villeneuve de Berg, in Auvergne; but still more in the neighbourhood of Belfast, where we may see the Chalk changed into saccharoid limestone near to its contact with the Trap.
When nearer the junction it becomes grey, and has a saccharoid structure.
Thus in the environs of St. Martin, near St. Paul de Fenouillet, the chalky limestone becomes more crystalline and saccharoidas it approaches the granite, and loses all trace of the fossils which it previously contained in abundance.
Among the fragments which abound in the tufaceous breccias of Somma, none are more common than a saccharoid dolomite, supposed to have been derived from an ordinary limestone altered by heat and volcanic vapours.
The saccharoid and lamellar, or statuary marbles, belong entirely to primitive and transition districts.
The rock is a mass of saccharoid and anhydrous gypsum, imbued with common salt, which is extracted by lixiviation; after which the gypsum remains porous and light.
Saccharoid marble is one of the fine varieties: it frequently contains flakes of mica.
Mica-schist, gneiss, and saccharoid marble are typical of this class.
On to-day's march many grasses are apparent, the pale Saccharoid grass of Jugdulluck common, a species of Cynodon (given to me by Dr.
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