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  2. Diorite - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptians had become skilled at shaping diorite and other hard stones by 4000 BCE. [39] A large diorite stela in the Louvre Museum dating to 1700 BCE is inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi. [40] Diorite was used by the Inca [41] civilization as structural stone. It was used by medieval Islamic builders to construct water fountains in the ...

  3. Hornblende - Wikipedia

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    Hornblende diorite from the Henry Mountains, Utah, US. Hornblende is a common constituent of many igneous and metamorphic rocks such as granite, syenite, diorite, gabbro, basalt, andesite, gneiss, and schist. It crystallizes in preference to pyroxene minerals from cooler magma that is richer in silica and water. [13]

  4. Tellurium - Wikipedia

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    Tellurites can be leached from the mixture with water and are normally present as hydrotellurites HTeO 3 − in solution. Selenites are also formed during this process, but they can be separated by adding sulfuric acid. The hydrotellurites are converted into the insoluble tellurium dioxide while the selenites stay in solution. [38]

  5. List of rock types - Wikipedia

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    Diorite – Igneous rock type Napoleonite, also known as corsite – Variety of diorite with orbicular structure; Dunite – Ultramafic and ultrabasic rock from Earth's mantle which is made of the mineral olivine; Essexite – Igneous rock type; Foidolite – Igneous rock rich in feldspathoid minerals; Gabbro – Coarse-grained mafic intrusive rock

  6. Tonalite - Wikipedia

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    However the current IUGS classification defines tonalite as having greater than 20% quartz, while quartz diorite varies its quartz content from 5 to 20%. [ 1 ] The name is derived from the type locality of tonalites, adjacent to the Tonale Line, a major structural lineament and mountain pass, Tonale Pass , in the Italian and Austrian Alps .

  7. Geology of Guernsey - Wikipedia

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    The north end of the island is an unfoliated calc-alkaline pluton of the Bordeaux Diorite Complex consisting of diorite, tonalite, and granodiorite. This is also dated at 570 million years ago . On the central east coast around Saint Peter Port is the St Peter Port Gabbro containing layers with olivine , hornblende and two kinds of pyroxene .

  8. Fascinating Facts About Water Parks — and a Few ... - AOL

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    There are only 14 water parks there, but with fewer than 900,000 residents in the state, that's about 16.4 water parks per 1 million people, according to a 2015 survey.

  9. Scapolite - Wikipedia

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    Some Norwegian scapolite-gabbros (or diorite) examined microscopically furnish examples of every stage of the process. The chemical changes involved are really small, one of the most important being the assumption of a small amount of chlorine in the new molecule.