"Pegmatite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a part of the continent. Darwin, almost as soon as he landed, was struck by the circumstance that the direction, as shown by his compass, of the prominent features of these great crystalline rock-masses—their cleavage, master-joints, foliation and pegmatite veins—was the same as the orientation described by Humboldt (whose works he had so carefully studied) on the west of ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... westward was formed of low ridges, among which the Suttor seemed to shape its winding course. The hills on which we stood, as well as the banks of the creek, were composed of flint-rock. Pebbles and blocks of Pegmatite covered the bed of the creek. This rock also cropped out along the river. This was the first time since leaving Moreton Bay that we met with primitive rocks, and I invite the attention of geologists to the close connection of the flint rock with granitic rocks; ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt |
