Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or like dolerite: as, doleritic lava.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of dolerite.
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- adjective Of the nature of
dolerite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Soils range from sandy loams on crests, to well-structured, often sodic clays on the bottomlands, with black to red clays overlying basaltic or doleritic areas.
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Conversion of dolomite and granite into argillaceous schist, by contact with basaltic and doleritic rocks.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Their origin is not connected with any determined species of rock: they break out in basalt, trachyte, leucitic porphyry (somma), or in doleritic mixtures of augite and labradorite; and hence arise the different nature and external conformation of these inclosures of craters.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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