- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Lévy
began their researches. They
succeeded in
producing such
rocks as
porphyrite, leucite-tephrite,
basalt and dolerite, and
obtained also
various structural...
-
andesitic composition. The
sedimentary rocks are also
intruded by ****s of
porphyrite. The
oldest rocks are a
sequence of
Silurian mudstones,
siltstones and...
- fish species. The
geological make up of the
river is
schistose quartz-
porphyrite and
sericite schist, and
quartz boulders making up any
major river obstruction...
-
total about 60
million tons.
There are
numerous deposits of granites,
porphyrites, and
marbles which, when polished,
acquire a
smooth surface of beautiful...
- the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?". Wired. Pea****, D. P. S. "Mons
Porphyrites". In
Kathryn A. Bard;
Steven Blake Shubert (eds.).
Encyclopedia of the...
- at Mons Claudi**** and co-directing the
survey and
excavation of Mons
Porphyrites. He also
proved the
location of the
Roman Red Sea port of Myos Hormos...
