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Dash :: Dash (v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes..

Hypozoic :: Hypozoic (a.) Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.

Contact :: Contact (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about..

Peridotite :: Peridotite (n.) An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine..

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Glaucophane :: Glaucophane (n.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks..

Jamb :: Jamb (n.) Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Same as Rock shaft.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks..

Dolerite :: Dolerite (n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt..

Sea Rocket :: Sea rocket () See under Rocket.

Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..

Downthrow :: Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n..

Littorina :: Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle..

Dogger :: Dogger (n.) A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron..

Olivine :: Olivine (n.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks..

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