porcelaneous


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porcelaneous

[¦pȯr·sə¦lā·nē·əs]
(geology)
Resembling unglazed porcelain.
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As for the benthic foraminifera, hyaline taxa dominate the assemblages (80%), agglutinated taxa are common, and porcelaneous taxa are rare.
Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)
On the other hand, porcelaneous foraminifera lack an ectoplasm layer, exposing the calcium carbonate shells to seawater conditions.
Fate of calcifying tropical symbiont-bearing large benthic foraminifera: living sands in a changing ocean
The large porcelaneous foraminifera types such as Archaias, Peneroplis and Dendritina are present in MF 6.
Facies distribution, paleoecology and sedimentary environment of the oligocene-miocene (Asmari formation) deposits, in Qeshm Island, SE Persian Gulf
mixing of the porcelaneous and hyaline test of marine fauna indicates that the lagoon is attached with the open marine environment (Fig.
Lithostratigraphy, microfacies investigation and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Jahrum Formation in the west and north of the Bandar Abbass area, South Iran
Denning, consists of a 3-cm marcasite pseudomorph after pyrrhotite intergrown with quartz, the surface of which is encrusted with microcrystals of colorless wavellite, pinkish sphalerite, orange greenockite and sparse, porcelaneous, white spheres of faustite.
Famous mineral localifies: Llallagua, Bolivia
It forms dull, translucent to opaque, white, creamy white or bluish white irregular granular or porcelaneous aggregates, compact, botryoidal and spherical aggregates, and thin crusts, commonly on cryolite, weloganite, strontianite and calcite crystals.
Famous mineral localities: the Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec
When a pocket is opened, fine-grained, almost porcelaneous clay is encountered, and the track hoe is shut down.
The Jackson's Crossroads amethyst deposit: Wilkes County, Georgia
Not only does he freely mix found and printed plates with hand-formed components, he mixes realistic and fantasy elements, tin glaze and porcelaneous materials, 'straight' images and 'confected' collage.
Paul Scott's: confected landscapes and contemporary vignettes
In hand specimens, the coarse-grained rodingite is seen to consist of subhedral, bright green chromian diopside crystals up to about 10 cm in maximum dimension, with large pods of porcelaneous white to pink to brownish red grossular, along with accessory clinochlore, prehnite, clinozoisite and hydrogrossular.
The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland

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