7 example sentences using igneous.
Igneous used in a sentence
Igneous in a sentence as an adjective
How do you bury people on an igneous planet?
Zircon is common in many types of igneous rocks, which are rocks that began in a molten state.
If you dig a thousand feet underground to bring me a normal igneous rock, I'm not going to wear it like jewelry.
You take the distribution of ages that you get and compare it to the know ages of large igneous bodies that were likely to be exposed and eroding at the time.
This is mostly a problem for long AC high-tension power lines using wye-connected transformers at each end which run in the same direction as mountains of igneous rock.
It isn't just a theoretical supposition, I believe we measure alignment of magnetic fields in igneous rocks and the 'almost always' comes from that, the current field of the earth being fixed in the rock when it solidifies.
Uranium precipitates out of igneous hydrothermal waters when it encounters organic carbon.
Igneous definitions
produced under conditions involving intense heat; "igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state; especially from molten magma"; "igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone"; "pyrogenic strata"
See also: pyrogenic pyrogenous
produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed by igneous agents"
See also: eruptive
like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere"
See also: fiery