"Hornblendic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oldest set of rocks, No. 1; they consist chiefly of hornblendic gneiss, and in the neighbouring Hebrides form whole islands, attaining a thickness of thousands of feet, although they have suffered such contortions and denudation that they seldom rise more than a few hundred feet above the sea-level. ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
