vitric

English

Adjective

vitric (comparative more vitric, superlative most vitric)

  1. glassy; vitreous
    • 2000 May 12, Leo Gabunia et al., “Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age”, in Science‎, volume 288, number 5468, →DOI, pages 1019–1025:
      This flow overlies fossil vertebrate-bearing volcaniclastic sediments that include a grayish-black vitric tuff that may be correlative with the unit A1 tuff at Dmanisi.
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