Antholite

Quick meaning: Antholite is a noun meaning (paleontology) A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.

Meaning

(paleontology) A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.

More Meanings

1. A fibrous form of amphibole.

Example Sentences

Antholite is found in irregular bundles of strong fibres associated with altered enstatite, calcite, dolomite etc

Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;

He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.

It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.

Word Forms

• antholites

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include typolite, phytolite, dendrolite, pholadite, fossil, anthophyllite.

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