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Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..

Unstratified :: Unstratified (a.) Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata..

Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

Saxicavous :: Saxicavous (a.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus..

Maclurea :: Maclurea (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks..

Rocket :: Rocket (v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Rocksucker :: Rocksucker (n.) A lamprey.

Bighorn :: Bighorn (n.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).

Hypogene :: Hypogene (a.) Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene..

Oreodon :: Oreodon (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer..

Rockwork :: Rockwork (n.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.

Semicrystalline :: Semicrystalline (a.) Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter..

Igneous :: Igneous (a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks..

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

Klipdachs :: Klipdachs (n.) A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit..

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together..

Flounce :: Flounce (v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock..

Rasher :: Rasher (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

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