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igneous
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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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