单词 | effusive period |
释义 | > as lemmaseffusive period b. Geology. [German (H. Rosenbusch Mikrosk. Physiographie d. Massigen Gesteine (ed. 2, 1887) 6).] Of an igneous rock: poured out on the earth's surface in a state of fusion and afterwards solidified; so effusive period, the period in which effusive rocks were formed. Also n., an effusive rock. ΚΠ 1888 F. H. Hatch in J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 429 Effusive, a term lately used abroad for those rocks which have been poured out at the surface, the word eruptive now being generally used for the whole group of massive rocks. 1895 A. Harker Petrol. 128 The two periods of consolidation were styled by Rosenbusch the ‘intratelluric’ and the ‘effusive’. 1897 G. P. Merrill Treat. Rocks ii. i. 60 To divide the eruptive rocks into two general groups: first, the intrusive or plutonic rocks; and second, the effusive or volcanic rocks. 1903 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 166 121 An origin contemporaneous with that of the Rossland effusives. 1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) I. 197 The effusive or volcanic rocks (Erguss-gesteine). 1905 J. Geikie Struct. & Field Geol. 206 Effusive rocks..are of two types, crystalline and fragmental. 1915 W. Lindgren in W. N. Rice et al. Probl. Amer. Geol. v. 273 Basalt is probably the most widely spread of the Tertiary effusives. 1939 A. Johannsen Descr. Petrogr. Igneous Rocks (ed. 2) I. i. 5 The effusive or extrusive rocks (vulcanites of Scheerer) are those which were poured out upon the surface of the earth; for example, our modern lavas... In this group are also included certain other rocks which, strictly speaking, are not extrusives, namely, the pyroclastics. < as lemmas |
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