Adularize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Adularize is a verb meaning (geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia.
Meaning
(geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia.
Example Sentences
At some localities the sanidite is adularizing.
[…] 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 […]
Word Forms
- adularizes
- adularizing
- adularized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include albitise, albitize.
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