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  • noun Plural form of eruptive.

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Examples

  • The thing that is essential is the proper amount, and the right kind of eruptive, because it is from the eruptives that the right conditions exist for obtaining this ore.

    Cobalt Mineral Conditions 1906

  • There is one other thing that seems to be essentially geological for these ores, and that is, masses of eruptives -- such a rock as the farmers in the country gather up and call green hardheads.

    Cobalt Mineral Conditions 1906

  • They are mostly green schists, mixed with green eruptives, and they form a large part of the rocks.

    Cobalt Mineral Conditions 1906

  • Of the rocks observed, by far the greater number are foliated basic eruptives, -- schists and gneisses.

    The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

  • Geological Survey of India, show these great ranges to be essentially formed of folded sediments penetrated by vast masses of granite and other eruptives.

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

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