umptekiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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umptekite (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 umptekites)

1. (mineralogy) A syenitic rock consisting of microperthite, arfvedsonite, aegirine and, possibly, nepheline.

   • 1905, John Henry Sears, Essex Institute, The Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology of Essex County, Massachusetts (page 213)

     The rock-mass in which this umptekite form of hornblende occurs may therefore be called umptekite gabbro.

   • 1920, Alfred Reginald Schultz, Oil Possibilities in and Around Baxter Basin (page 85)

     The Beverly syenite includes the alkaline syenites of Beverly, Manchester, Salem, and Marblehead, comprising pulaskites and umptekites.

   • 1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (page 210)

     There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.