meteorwrong

Coined by replacing the final syllable of meteorite, which sounds like right, with wrong.

A scarlet precipitate (C₈H₁₄N₄O₄Ni) will be present if nickel is present. A negative test for nickel means you have a "meteorwrong." A positive test may indicate you have a meteorite, but since there are many commercial nickel-iron alloys it is not a conclusive test.

1964, The Griffith Observer, volume 28, Los Angeles, Calif.: Griffith Observatory, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:

Unfortunately, the object turned out to be only a “meteorwrong”—although a deceptive one.

1969, Lincoln LaPaz, Topics in Meteoritics: Hunting Meteorites: Their Recovery, Use, and Abuse from Paleolithic to Present (University of New Mexico Publications in Meteoritics; 6), Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →OCLC, page 171:

Vastly more meteorwrongs are found than meteorites. This should be no surprise. A host of Earth objects—natural and manmade—do indeed look like meteorites, and they are just waiting to be found and to confuse you.

2008, O. Richard Norton, Lawrence A. Chitwood, “A Gallery of Meteorwrongs”, in Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, London: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 175:

Those who work in the field looking for meteorites keep a magnet with them at all times. This is always the first test; if the meteorite suspect is not magnetic, it is a "meteorwrong." Good collectors learn very quickly how to identify meteorwrongs since what may be represented as a very rare stone meteorite (at $200 a gram!) could turn out to be an expensive piece of junk. The classic meteorwrong is an igneous rock known as a Cumberlandite.

2010, Mike [Michael] D. Reynolds, “Meteorite Classification”, in Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, 2nd revised and updated edition, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 63:

(humorous) A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite.


mimosite

en-noun

mimosite (countable and uncountable, plural mimosites)

(mineralogy, archaic) A melanocratic basaltic rock.


banatite

banatite (countable and uncountable, plural banatites)

(petrology) granodiorite or rock of similar composition that intruded in the Banat region of Europe in the Cretaceous


microgabbro

microgabbro (countable and uncountable, plural microgabbros)

Among these sequences, the Early Cretaceous parts (Urutawan–Motuan) contain spilites and keratophyres within greywacke-type detritus and conglomerates (Battey 1950; Ash 1970; Hay 1975), whilst the Late Cretaceous lithologies are predominantly basalts, dolerites, and microgabbros, with minor amounts of sediment (Le Couteur 1967; Hay 1975).

1982 November 26, R. N. Brothers, M. Delaloye, “Obducted ophiolites of North Island, New Zealand: origin, age, emplacement and tectonic implications for Tertiary and Quaternary volcanicity”, in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, volume 25, number 2, →ISSN, page 258:

(petrology) A fine-grained igneous rock with the same composition as gabbro but having an ophitic texture; diabase.


microdiorite

microdiorite (countable and uncountable, plural microdiorites)

Early Miocene fossiliferous andesitic sediments are associated with some ophiolite massifs in northern Northland: Otaian volcanic grits (Hughes 1966) form a part of Maungaru Range (Fig. 3) and Waitakian–Otaian volcaniclastics are intruded by microdiorite near North Cape (Leitch 1966, 1970).

It may be seen from this detailed description of localities that not only did the original character and distribution of the microdiorites vary throughout the district, but the subsequent alterations supply data from which inferences may be drawn as to the presence of concealed igneous bodies of later origin and the manner in which they have affected the microdiorites.

1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana:

(petrology) A course-grained igneous rock, of volcanic origin, containing mostly plagioclase feldspar; a rock whose composition is intermediate between andesite and diorite.


wehrlite

wehrlite (countable and uncountable, plural wehrlites)

From Wehrle + -ite, after the Czech professor Alois Wehrle.

Even within a single massif the igneous suite may be highly variable and range in character from quartz-normative tholeiitic to under-saturated alkaline. Rock types include wehrlite, olivine pyroxenite and hornblendite; teschenite, eucrite, and olivine, hypersthene, and hornblende gabbros; diorite, trondhjemite, alkaline syenite, and granophyre; augite, hypersthene, and oligoclase basalts and dolerites; variolite and camptonite.

1982 November 26, R. N. Brothers, M. Delaloye, “Obducted ophiolites of North Island, New Zealand: origin, age, emplacement and tectonic implications for Tertiary and Quaternary volcanicity”, in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, volume 25, number 2, →ISSN, pages 257–258:

(petrology) A type of peridotite that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene.


sedimentitious

en-adj

sedimentitious (comparative more sedimentitious, superlative most sedimentitious)

more sedimentitious (comparative)
most sedimentitious (superlative)

The urine is often sedimentitious; sometimes the deposit is crystalline, but more frequently mucous; this, however, depends upon the action of the salts contained in the water upon substances met with in the bladder.

1850, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:

Nearly all the causes which have been mentioned, accidental and natural, appear to have operated in producing the present condition of its bed—the bends and elbows in the channel, where not before alluded to, had their share in effecting a retardation of velocity, and in furnishing a superabundance of sedimentitious matter; and the construction of a mill-dam (which, for all that is known, may have done a greater amount of good than evil,) has contributed an acceleration to the agencies at work.

1836, Report of the Engineer and Geologist in Relation to the New Map to the Executive of Maryland, 1834:


sedimentaceous

sedimentaceous (comparative more sedimentaceous, superlative most sedimentaceous)

more sedimentaceous (comparative)
most sedimentaceous (superlative)

Discelium nudum is usually found along the line of excavations, especially rail and wagon roads, on a hard sandy clay substratum, in the basin-like depressions of which muddy water settles, and drying up, leaves a sedimentaceous layer.

These new organisms, having a glutinous composition, held the animalculæ they came in contact with as they floated about, and gradually absorbed or digested them, thus sustaining their lives and enabling them to multiply by throwing off large numbers of small cells, which rapidly grew to maturity, propagated their species in the same manner, and when their power to do so was exhausted, like animalculæ, their dead bodies sank and became part of the formation going on in the sedimentaceous matter below.


hunger stone

/ˈhʌŋɡə ˌstəʊn/

/ˈhʌŋɡɚ ˌstoʊn/

Calque of German Hungerstein, from Hunger (“hunger”) + Stein (“rock, stone”).

If there were a "hunger stone" in the Fox river like the one in the Elbe, it would now be showing its unwelcome face above the waters—which is equivalent to saying that the water level, and power correspondingly, is very low indeed.

1918 August 14, “Topics of Interest in Northern Wisconsin”, in Thomas J. Keenan, editor, Paper: A Weekly Technical Journal for Paper and Pulp Mills, volume XXII, number 23, New York, N.Y.: Paper, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:

In the Rhine, off Bingen, there is a cluster of rocks known as the "hunger stones," which are visible only in years of extraordinary, protracted dry weather. When they can be seen, it is supposed to mean a year of poor food crops but incomparable wine.

1946, The New Yorker, volume 22, part 5, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 1:

Being here in Frankfurt reminds me of this region's famous »Hungersteine«, or hunger stones, as the Main River boatmen used to call the rocks that became visible when the water level was low.

1993, Alfred-Herrhausen-Gesellschaft für Internationalen Dialog [Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue], Society in Paralysis during Times of Change: Reasons, Consequences, Remedies: First Annual Colloquium, June 11/12, 1993, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, →ISBN:

It sat on the bluffs of the Susquehanna, where I discovered the hunger stones, which in most years were covered by the river and could be seen only during drought years.

2000, Werner H. Von Rosenstiel, Tales of an American Soldier: From KP to Seeing His Former Nazi Leaders in the Dock at Neuremberg, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Xlibris, →ISBN; republished as Hitler’s Soldier in the U.S. Army: An Unlikely Memoir of WW II (Fire Ant Books), Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2006, →ISBN, page 45:

Our ancestors were creative in the ways they commemorated historical climactic events. A 2018 summer drought, for example, exposed "hunger stones" in the Czech Elbe River. Records of extremely low water levels from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century, as well as warnings of their consequences, have been chiseled into these river boulders. For instance, one carved hunger stone reads, "Wenn Du mich siehst, dann weine." If you see me, weep.

2020, Valerie Trouet, “Winter is Coming”, in Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

A stone, either naturally exposed or intentionally embedded in a river during a drought, which is dated and often inscribed to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they may face famine if the water reaches that low level again. Such stones are common in Central Europe.

hongersteen

stone in a river visible during a drought, marking the water level as a warning of famine if the water reaches that low level again


trachydolerite

en-noun

trachydolerite (countable and uncountable, plural trachydolerites)

Instead of separating these blending rocks, then, and distinguishing them by different names, it is better to follow the example of Abich, and unite them under one term, such as that proposed by him of—14. Trachy-dolerite.

1863, “Geology”, in Adam and Charles Black, editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th edition, volume XV, page 133:

A trachydolerite composed of plagioclase, orthoclase, analcite, augite, and biotite is the least abundant of the rocks occurring in irregular obtrusive masses.

1906, Waldemar Lindgren, Frederick Leslie Ransome, Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, page 3:

The differentiation extent of a melt changes along strike, and the types of sequences described above are observed in different sill intersections. Since data on layered trachydolerite sills on the northwest of the Siberian Platform are not available in the geologic literature, consideration of the petrology of this intrusion type is of interest.

2014, V.V. Ryabov, A. Shevko, M.P. Gora, Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region, volume 1, page 96:

A type of volcanic rock with characteristics of both trachyte and dolerite.


Oxford Clay

A Jurassic marine sedimentary rock formation underlying much of southeast England, from as far west as Dorset and as far north as Yorkshire.


greywether

From grey + wether; see wether (“a ram”).

A large block of hard sandstone found sporadically over south and southeast England.


gibber stone

When midnight struck, the convoy prepared to set forth on their long journey west, through the gibber stone desert, following the Dreaming […].

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 445:

(Australia) A rounded, eroded stone characteristic of dry parts of inland Australia.


pea gravel

pea gravel (usually uncountable, plural pea gravels)

A type of gravel consisting of small (1/4 in, .6 cm) round and smooth stones in variety of colors often used for decorative purposes.


tool stone

(archaeology) A stone used to manufacture other stone tools


rockmass

rockmass (countable and uncountable, plural rockmasses)

The mechanical characteristics of the host rockmass above and below the mine workings are highly anisotropic and complex […]

1995, F. B. J. Barends, Frits J. J. Brouwer, Frans H. Schröder, Land Subsidence: By Fluid Withdrawal, by Solid Extraction: Theory and Modelling, Environmental Effects and Remedial Measures: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Land Subsidence:

Weak intercalation which is comparatively weak and small bedded geological unit and which usually includes fault and thin weak rock, is one of the most important subject^([sic]) in rockmass mechanics.

1997, Paul G. Marinos, Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 1, page 445:


diasporite

Diasporites are also metamorphic rocks, which contain mainly diaspore along with hematite, chloritoid and margarite. They show the same texture as the emery deposits and are found in the same geological position in Southwest Anatolia.

1963, Central Treaty Organization, Symposium on Industrial Rocks and Minerals:

(petrology) A kind of metamorphic rock that contains diaspore.


acaustobiolith

From Ancient Greek άκαυστος (ákaustos) + bio- + -lith.

af

The acaustobiolith components are frequently mixed in with mineral compounds. Acaustobioliths (the mineral phases present in the oil shale) are mainly composed of limestones, dolomites, some sandstones, and often clays[…]

2017 November 28, Michael S. Blinderman, Alexander Y. Klimenko, Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion, Woodhead Publishing, →ISBN, page 527:

(petrology) A nonflammable organic sedimentary rock.


azoic rock

(dated) primeval rock formed during the Hadean and devoid of any fossil


Azoic rock

(dated) Alternative letter-case form of azoic rock


diktytaxitic

en-adj

diktytaxitic (comparative more diktytaxitic, superlative most diktytaxitic)

more diktytaxitic (comparative)
most diktytaxitic (superlative)

(geology, petrology) Texture of certain basalts containing abundant angular interstitial gas cavities between the plagioclase laths


frictionite

en-noun

frictionite (countable and uncountable, plural frictionites)

Any rock created by friction (for example during a sturzstrom).


hyalomylonite

hyalomylonite (countable and uncountable, plural hyalomylonites)

From Ancient Greek ὕαλος (húalos, “glassy”) + Ancient Greek μυλών (mulṓn, “mill”) + -ite.

A type of mylonite formed under a more extreme degree of deformation, resulting in a smoother, glassy or shiny texture.