Meaning of adularization | Babel Free

Definitions

addition of or replacement by adularia

uncountable

Examples

“[…] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron⟳, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks […]”

“Adularization is most intense near the centers of mineralization. Silicification and bleaching of the bedded tuffs are pervasive and widespread , causing the rock to be easily mistaken for rhyolite (Emmons, 1910, p. 59).”

“These zones have⟳ small thicknesses and are replaced by zones of zeolitization and adularization at depths of a few tens of meters and often a few meters.”

“Adularization is developed mainly in amygdaloidal, upper fragments of the flows of the so-called melaphyres, along dysjunctive zones or endocontacts of larger intrusions, but wholly confines smaller igneous bodies (e.g., dikes of ...”

“Mineralogically , the metasomatic alteration is marked by incipient to total adularization of primary phenocrysts of monoclinic K - feldspar (total), of plagioclase (incipient to total) , as well as of feldspars in the matrix ...”

“This is supported by the disappearance of cracks and cleavages in feldspars that suffered adularization. We conclude⟳ that oil impregnation occurred prior to (or partly during) adularization.”

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