spilitic, a. Geol.
(spaɪl-, spɪˈlɪtɪk)
[f. spilite + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of spilite; characterized by the presence of spilite.
| 1911 Geol. Mag. Decade V. VIII. 205 The basic felspar can be traced in every stage of development as we follow the spilitic lavas from the outer precincts of the aureoles to the actual contacts with the granite. Ibid. 243 The spilitic suite of igneous rocks. 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxx. 1126 The volcanic rocks interbedded with eugeosynclinal sediments are characteristically submarine lavas of the spilitic suite.., including pillow lavas. 1974 D. S. Coombs in G. C. Amstutz Spilites & Spilitic Rocks 377 Augite was thus unstable relative to chlorite..during the production of the diagnostic spilitic mineralogy. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 201 The geosynclinal belt across Europe, with its associated zones of spilitic volcanics and serpentines, has been interpreted as site of an old ocean. |