Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rock closely resembling leucitophyre, but less coarsely granular in texture.
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As regards Kaiser Wilhelm Land, the Gaussberg is a volcanic cone mainly composed of leucite-basalt, but its slopes are strewn with erratics presumably transported from the south and these include gneiss, mica-schist and quartzite, apparently Archaean.
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