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STONE |
Small rock |
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ROLL |
Small loaf often included with rock |
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SLIDE |
A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
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STONEBRASH |
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken
rock; brash. |
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SPALL |
To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of
separating from rock. |
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POCKET |
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other
mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. |
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GUNNEL |
A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides;
esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish,
butterfish, rock eel. |
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KLIPDACHS |
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. |
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ROCHE ALUM |
A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called
from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; --
also called rock alum. |
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KNOTTED |
Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed
of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots
in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks. |
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DAMAN |
A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species
found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa
is H. Brucei... |
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STOCKWORK |
A metalliferous deposit characterized by the
impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests
irregularly grouped. This kind of ... |
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AMYGDALOID |
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small
cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of
different minerals, esp. ag... |
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COSTEANING |
The process by which miners seek to discover metallic
lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial
deposits to the solid roc... |