igneous
IPA: ˈɪgniʌs
adjective
- Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
- (geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.
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Examples of "igneous" in Sentences
- The guardians of Fire include the Igneous Knights.
- The pool is a sinkhole surrounded by igneous rock.
- They are called "igneous" rocks, from the Latin word
- The most common rocks are of igneous and metamorphic origin.
- The fern grows in rocky cliffs and slopes of igneous origin.
- Igneous intrusions are found in the far southern areas of the State.
- These are the waters from the weathering zone of acid igneous rocks.
- Cumulate harzburgite is found in some large layered igneous intrusions.
- Labradorite is the principal component of the igneous rock type anorthosite.
- The igneous rock at the core of the mountain is wrapped in sedimentary layers.
- Chromitite is an igneous cumulate rock composed mostly of the mineral chromite.
- • Rocks are classified as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic, according to how they formed.
- Like all the radioactive clocks used by geologists, potassium/ argon timing works only with so-called igneous rocks.
- No, not as in igneous, granite, marble or quartz, but as in I just spent 5 days in Guadalajara and had a rockin 'good time.
- When we pass from the agency which geologists term igneous, to aqueous and atmospheric agencies, we see the like ever growing complications of effects.
- The lone science class I'd been required to take, an introductory geology course, was graded pass/fail, and though I'd passed it (barely), I still wasn't sure what "igneous" meant.
- An attentive examination of a metamorphic region shows that here and there the alteration and recrystallisation have proceeded so far that the rocks graduate into granites and other so-called igneous rocks.