leptynitic

comparative more leptynitic · superlative most leptynitic

1. Refers to a fine-grained, typically light-colored metamorphic rock primarily composed of quartz and feldspar, often associated with high-grade metamorphic processes.

   This leptnitic mound is semi-weathered and the nature of the weathering is unlike to that of the die khondalite bodies.

   2021, Dr. P. J. Ratnakar, Dr. SS. Asadi, GEOCHEMISTRY EVALUATION ON PART OF EASTERN GHATS, Lulu Publication, →ISBN, page 12

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   I have found the same regularity in the striation on the transition slate of the shores of Mjosen lake; on the leptynitic gneiss of the valley of Guldbrandsdalen, where I have, at the same time, seen exceedingly well characterised moraines; …

   1845 October – 1846 April, M.P. Schimper, “On some facts dependent on the Erratic Phenomena of Scandinavia.”, in THE EDINBURGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL EXHIBITING a view of the PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS in the SCIENCES AND THE ARTS., volume XL, pages 241-242

   Leptynitic garnet-biotite gneisses in the central and northern part of the Neoproterozoic Kerala Khondalite Belt KKB in southern India were regarded as the main source rocks for garnet-bearing leucogranites (Braun and Raith, 1994).

   1996 August 26 – September 2, The Origin of Granites and Related Rocks (U.S. Geological Survey Circular; 1129), U.S. Geological Survey