Adularization

Quick meaning: Adularization is a noun meaning (geology) addition of or replacement by adularia.

Meaning

(geology) addition of or replacement by adularia.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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).

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 .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adularia, adularescence, amygdule, argillization, arenization, albitisation.

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