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  • *Igneous petrology focuses on the composition and texture of igneous ... *Sedimentary petrology focuses on the composition and texture of sedimentary ...
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  • is in the range of 52-63 percent. Its texture ranges from aphanitic to ... A rock with aphanitic texture is so fine-grained that its component ...
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  • In polycrystalline materials, anisotropy can be due to certain texture ... * Kocks, U.F., C.N. Tomé, and H.-R. Wenk. 2001. Texture and Anisotropy ...
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  • it can be inferred; he carefully contrasts texture and sonority to shape sections ... accompanied by a homophonic four part texture that had a set rhythmic ...
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  • Similarly, crystal texture and form within pegmatite may be taken to extreme size and perfection. Feldspar within pegmatite may display exaggerated ...
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  • the smell may become more noticeable, the texture will obviously change, it ... components. Smell, taste, feeling, and texture can also be essential components ...
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  • mineral and chemical composition, the texture of the constituent particles ... rock obsidian). Given this fine-grained texture, it is much more difficult ...
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  • otherwise disparate parts of the musical texture can be placed within a coherent ... are duration, pitch, and quality [timbre, texture, and loudness]." Such ...
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  • Bibb forms loose heads; it has a buttery texture. Butterhead cultivars are ... lettuces, valued more for their crunchy texture than for flavor. Cultivars ...
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  • Igneous rock are classified according to mode of occurrence, texture ... matrix is termed porphyry. Porphyritic texture develops when some of the ...
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  • The shape, structure and texture of a basalt is diagnostic of the ... imparting a lightweight "frothy" texture to the rock. Basaltic cinders ...
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  • Bagels are similar in shape to doughnuts and texture to bialys. Russian ... create the firm and dense bagel shape and texture. Most bagel recipes call ...
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  • His unique styles in orchestration, harmonic texture, and melodic expression seemed like a bridge between the late Baroque period and the early First ...
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  • (used in jams, for example) give foods a firmer texture. They are not true emulsifiers, but they help to stabilize emulsions. ;Sweeteners : Sweeteners ...
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  • tendency toward solo-with-accompaniment texture in secular vocal music culminated ... only chords, depending on the tempo and texture of the music. ...
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  • are oriented randomly (that is, if they lack texture), a large enough volume of polycrystalline material will be approximately isotropic. (When referring ...
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  • and schist. The rocks are classified by texture and by chemical and mineral ... give it a foliated, schistose or gneissic texture, with a planar arrangement ...
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  • richness, brilliance, and clarity of texture (Igor Stravinsky called the Chicago Symphony under Reiner "the most precise and flexible orchestra ...
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  • at the lowest. Perthite is a typical texture in alkali feldspar, due to exsolution When a solid solution becomes unstable (because of a temperature ...
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  • around iron nuclei, leaving a light green spotted texture—the spheres sometimes deformed by a subsequent applied stress field to ovoids, which appear ...
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