Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

lave leucititiche

English translation:

leucitite lavas

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Mar 20, 2015 08:54
9 yrs ago
Italian term

lave leucititiche

Italian to English Other Geology
Hi guys,
I can't find in any glossary an equivalent for "lave leucititiche". Any suggestions?
Here is a bit of context.


L’attività estrattiva di questa cava interessa una potente formazione di lave leucititiche originatesi in seguito alle attività del vicino centro effusivo di Monte Falcone e di altri complessi effusivi posti a Sud e ad Est dell’area in questione.


Cheers for that.
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Mar 20, 2015 10:26: philgoddard changed "Field" from "Science" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Construction / Civil Engineering" to "Geology" , "Field (write-in)" from "Quarry Extraction Activity" to "(none)"

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leucitic lavas

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ESjPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA234&lp...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UVUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA574&lp...

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Good point. I'm not sure. Neither Googles tremendously well.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/leucitite
Note from asker:
Hi Kate thanks for your answer, what about this http://www.canberra.edu.au/researchrepository/items/65266a0e-1305-f3c1-7078-1d1ebda4d8e3/1/ that underline the difference between leucitic (as I thought at first sight) and leucitite which seems to be a different kind of lava.
Peer comment(s):

neutral philgoddard : I'm not convinced there's such a word in geology.
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leucite-bearing lavas

"Leucititic" (not "leucitic") gets some hits, but they appear to be translations. "Leucite-bearing" gets plenty, however.

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Leucitite is a leucite-bearing rock.
Example sentence:

Occurrence of a leucite-bearing lava at Cosgrove, Victoria

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Wiki

Leucite lavas from which feldspar is absent are divided into the leucitites and leucite basalts. The latter contain olivine, the former do not. Pyroxene is the usual ferromagnesian mineral, and resembles that of the tephrites and basanites. Sanidine, melanite, hauyne and perovskite are frequent accessory minerals in these rocks, and many of them contain melilite in some quantity, The well-known leucitite of the Capo di Bove, near, Rome, is rich in this mineral, which forms irregular plates, yellow in the hand specimen, enclosing many small rounded crystals of leucite. Bracciano and Roccamonfina are other Italian localities for leucitite, and in Java, Montana, Celebes and New South Wales similar rocks occur, The leucite basalts belong to more basic types and are rich in olivine and augite. They occur in great numbers in the Rhenish volcanic district (Eifel, Laacher See) and in Bohemia, and accompany tephrites or leucitites in Java, Montana, Celebes and Sardinia. The peperino of the neighborhood of Rome is a leucitite tuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucite
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