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Diorite is an adjective that describes a type of coarse-grained igneous rock composed mainly of plagioclase feldspar, biotite, hornblende, and pyroxene
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- A grey intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase feldspar, biotite, hornblende and/or pyroxene.
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Diorite is one of the hardest natural materials.
Granite has less density than diorite.
Diorite is usually only found alone in small tills.
They are made of granite and diorite.
Diorite and andesite are similar rocks.
The predominant igneous rock is porphyritic hornblende diorite.
Diorite may also be porphyritic.
The property still contains deposits of black diorite.
Several outlying masses of diorite intrude into the inlet.
The slate band includes many dikes of diorite.
Diorite is named after the contrasting colors of the rock.
The main type of igneous rock is porphyritic diorite.
Diorite was also used as a fortification for walls and towers.
There are many small intrusions of lamprophyre and diorite.
The diorite statue stands at a final height of five foot six.
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You will find pieces of diorite.
Other pieces of diorite showing the regular equidistant grooves of a saw.
This is a fragment of a diorite bowl.
Today diorite is used a stone slab for flooring and garden landscaping.
There are granite and diorite.
The intrusive sample is from a quartz diorite dike intruding serpentinized peridotite.
One of these intrusions contained the gabbro and diorite.
Diorite aggregate is commonly used as a standard aggregate for this type of experiment.
It also occurs as a secondary mineral in altered gabbro and diorite.
Several isolated bodies of older diorite and syenodiorite occur within the pluton.
This is a statue made of diorite.
The minerals are found in limestone and diorite dating from the late cretaceous period.
In older references tonalite is sometimes used as a synonym for quartz diorite.
The quartz rocks are white and diorite waste rocks are black.
The mountain is composed mostly of feldspar and hornblende rich diorite.
A late stage diorite to quartz diorite stock forms the core of Coquihalla Mountain.
The only stone harder than the diorite the diamond.
With an increase in calcic plagioclase and mafic minerals the rock type becomes a diorite.
The quartz diorite sheets were intruded during this Cadomian deformation and metamorphic event.
It is made of green diorite.
The Ross River quartz diorite pluton is intrusive into the centre of the greenstone belt.
In some places it also carries enclaves of quartz diorite and monzogabbro.
Diorite had already been used by old Sumerian rulers Statue of Entemena.
A quartz porphyry has intruded mafic and rhyolitic lava flows and a dike of diorite.
Uses of Diorite.
The mineralogical composition of the Vinga porphyry classifies it as a monzogranite or quartz diorite.
The primary rock comprising Slesse is grey diorite from the batholith.
A diorite bowl more than 2 meters in diameter.
The bedrock under Uplands is quartz diorite gneiss.
The ore is found in these diorite to granodiorite, preferably in pyrites.
The clasts of Lombriz Formation are made up of andesite and diorite.
They comprise gabbro, diorite and granite.
There is only one slab yard in Clark County that works with Diorite.
Diorite is an extremely hard rock, making it difficult to carve and work with.
The materials included granite, diorite and alabaster.
