igneousin a sentence
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She found an igneous formation in layers of sedimentary bedrock.
igneous = rocks solidified from molten magma
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- Through the speaker grill a person could make out the filaments glowing igneous orange in their silver-nippled tubes.† (source)
- And it turned out that Owen Meany didn't know a metamorphic schist from an igneous intrusion—unless the latter was granite.† (source)
- Igneous, sedimentary and something else.† (source)
- It looked like a gouged chunk of igneous rock that had been coughed out of the hotbed of an old volcano.† (source)
- Spaced at intervals from five miles to half a mile, these mountains with their knife-edged ridges of brittle igneous rock rivaled the Alps in size.† (source)
- Owen Meany used to say that we residents of Gravesend were sitting over a bona fide outcrop of intrusive igneous rock; he would say this with an implied reverence—as if the consensus of the Gravesend community was that the Exeter Pluton was as valuable as a mother lode of gold.† (source)
- Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.† (source)
- Over an extensive area, the soil consisted of that igneous gravel called "tuff," reddish in color as if made from crushed bricks.† (source)
- This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.† (source)
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