| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Igneous-rock series | Mining | An assemblage of temporally and spatially related igneous rocks of the same general form of occurrence (plutonic, hypabyssal, or volcanic), characterized by possessing in common certain chemical, mineralogic, and textural features or properties so that the rocks together exhibit a continuous variation from one extremity of the series to the other. Syn: rock series. (references) | |
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