Chloritic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Chloritic is an adjective meaning containing chlorite.
Meaning
containing chlorite.
Example Sentences
The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks.
I have not the least doubt of such facts occurring, from what I have seen (and described at M. Video) of portions of fine chloritic schists being entangled in the midst of a gneiss district.
Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of the Whipple Mountains yielded quartz-epidote fractionations that range from 4.1 to 6.4 per mil and increase systematically toward the fault.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include schists, chlorian, chloratian, cherty, chorismitic, clayish.
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