- Mons
Porphyrites (today
Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the
mountainous site of a
group of
ancient quarries in the Red Sea
Hills of the
Eastern Desert in Egypt...
- south-central
British Columbia. To the
Romans it was
known as
Lapis porphyrites.
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History (36, 11)
affirmed that the "Imperial...
-
total about 60
million tons.
There are
numerous deposits of granites,
porphyrites, and
marbles which, when polished,
acquire a
smooth surface of beautiful...
- Lévy
began their researches. They
succeeded in
producing such
rocks as
porphyrite, leucite-tephrite,
basalt and dolerite, and
obtained also
various structural...
- gneiss,
veined with
feldspar and quartz, and inters****d with
reddish porphyrite.
Twelve major forest types are
found in the area. The
landscape is fragmented...
-
Peridotite Intrusive or
Hypabyssal type Quartz-porphyry Orthoclase-porphyry
Porphyrite Dolerite Picrite Lavas or
Effusive type Rhyolite,
Obsidian Trachyte Andesite...
- (low grade) ore
deposit of copper,
consisting of
porphyry rocks Mons
Porphyrites, the only
porphyry quarry worked in the
ancient world for the emperor's...
- Archanes)
Marble pestles Ritual steatite axe
Stone bird's nest
vases Porphyrite conical rhyton Two bull's head
rhytons Sakellarakis, J. and E. 1991 Crete...
-
splitting rock and
crushing using stone pestles and
stone mills made of
porphyrite,
which can be
found in the
eastern part of
Kagawa Prefecture. Excavated...
- spur in 1941. Ore
bodies are
represented by
huskies (diorite, diabase-
porphyrites). Ore-containing minerals: formality, molybdenite, wolframite. This ridge...
