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Etymology
From anorthite + -ic.
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anorthitic (comparative more anorthitic, superlative most anorthitic)
- (geology) Composed of or resembling anorthite.
- 1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189:
- Next followed a period of activity in which basic rocks were produced by submarine eruptions—lavas and scoriae of anorthitic character, palagonitic tuffs, and basaltic ashes; and finally from the crater, which must have been a vast lake of fire like those in the Sandwich Islands, poured forth quiet streams of basaltic lavas.
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