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- noun Plural form of
eruptive .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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They are mostly green schists, mixed with green eruptives, and they form a large part of the rocks.
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Of the rocks observed, by far the greater number are foliated basic eruptives, -- schists and gneisses.
The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901
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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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