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Subhumerate :: Subhornblendic (a.) Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.

Metasomatism :: Metasomatism (n.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization..

Stock :: Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone..

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick..

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock..

Steingale :: Steinbock (n.) A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok..

Magma :: Magma (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town..

Stocky :: Stockwork (n.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

Fahlband :: Fahlband (n.) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides..

Ammonitoidea :: Ammonitoidea (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

Rockfish :: Rockfish (n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

Potter :: Potter (n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

Strode :: Strockle (n.) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc..

Mastodonsaurus :: Mastodonsaurus (n.) A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks..

Petroleum :: Petroleum (n.) Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker..

Rag :: Rag (n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture..

Wax :: Wax (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite..

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

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