adularization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."