anorthosite

English

Noun

anorthosite (countable and uncountable, plural anorthosites)

1. (petrology) A phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar.
   • 1863, T. Sterry Hunt, "On the Chemical and Mineralogical Relations of Metamorphic Rocks", The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume XXXVI, November, 1863, page 224:

     The second, or Labrador series is characterized, as already remarked, by the predominance of great beds of anorthosite, composed chiefly of triclinic feldspars […]

Anorthosite sample

Derived terms

• anorthositic

 

Translations

a phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜長岩 / 斜长岩 (xiéchángyán)

• Danish: anortosit c
• Finnish: anortosiitti
• French: anorthosite (fr) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anortositt m

  Nynorsk: anortositt m

• Polish: anortozyt m
• Portuguese: anortosita f
• Russian: анортози́т (ru) m (anortozít)