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    word metasomatism are metasomatosis and metasomatic process. The word metasomatose can be used as a name for specific varieties of metasomatism (for example...
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    K-metasomatism in cataclastically-deformed magmatic plutonic rocks. The breakage happens primarily along grain boundary seals and the K-metasomatism may...
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    heating of chalk in the open air. French geologists subsequently added metasomatism, the circulation of fluids through buried rock, to the list of processes...
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    magnesium-rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in subduction zones, changing rocks by heat and pressure...
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    carbonate-bearing rocks during regional or contact metamorphism and metasomatism. Skarns may form by metamorphic recrystallization of impure carbonate...
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  • sediment. Sulfidic jasperoids are typical examples of silica-sulfide metasomatism of dolomites, and are found in Nevada, Australia and Iran. They are hard...
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    interest. Fenitization, or Na-metasomatism, is a distinctive form of contact metamorphism accompanied by metasomatism. It takes place around intrusions...
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    produced by autogenic alteration during cooling. In other instances, metasomatism has resulted in phlogopite formation within large volumes, as in the...
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    for Sri Lanka. The mineral is found in skarns associated with boron metasomatism of carbonate rocks where intruded by granite. Minerals occurring with...
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    discounted, hypothesis that granite is formed in place through extreme metasomatism. The idea behind granitization was that fluids would supposedly bring...
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  • have lost potassium ions in potassic alteration and gained sodium ions. Metasomatism Taylor, Roger (2009), Ore Textures: Recognition and Interpretation, Springer...
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    hydrothermal veins, in pegmatites, and in areas of contact metamorphism or metasomatism. Arsenopyrite crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system and often...
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    quartz bearing rock. It is the result of slow hydrothermal alteration or metasomatism of the basaltic sheeted dike complex and associated plagiogranites that...
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    pentlandite or other nickeliferous sulfide minerals during metamorphism or metasomatism. Millerite is also formed from sulfur poor olivine cumulates by nucleation...
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    gneisses, and iron formations; in blueschist facies rocks, and from sodium metasomatism in granulites. It may occur as an authigenic mineral in shales and marls...
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    pentlandite, and in association with copper arsenic sulfides), or via metasomatism of sulfide-free ultramafic rocks, where metasomatic fluids introduce...
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    Actinolite schist is often the result of hydrothermal alteration or metasomatism, and thus may not, necessarily, be a good indicator of metamorphic conditions...
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    gradational with background silica-albite metasomatism. In all cases these alteration zones are metasomatism effects in the strictest sense, resulting...
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    altered while the composition remains unchanged. This is in contrast to metasomatism, which is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other...
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    host to mineralisation and may only be an indicator of the presence of metasomatism of the wall-rocks which contains the low-grade mineralisation. For this...
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    dioxide in groundwaters. Magnesite can be formed via talc carbonate metasomatism of peridotite and other ultramafic rocks. Magnesite is formed via carbonation...
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    photo-oxidation of polymersPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Metasomatism – Chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids Meteorite...
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  • hydrothermal deposition of ore minerals and the rock alteration (vein metasomatism) associated with ore mineral deposits. The concept and application of...
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    Changes in composition can be caused by processes such as weathering or metasomatism (hydrothermal alteration). Changes in temperature and pressure occur...
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    (2012-06-01). "Multi-stage origin of Roberts Victor eclogites: Progressive metasomatism and its isotopic effects". Lithos. 142–143: 161–181. doi:10.1016/j.lithos...
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    Changes in composition caused by fluids given off by the magmatic body (metasomatism) sometimes take place. The hornfels facies is the metamorphic facies...
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    usually takes place in granitoid rock and usually involves alkaline metasomatism (addition of alkali metal oxides to the rock) the result is a rock that...
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  • heterodisomy, hexasomy, isodisomic, isodisomy, macrosomia, metasomatic, metasomatism, microsome, microsomia, monosome, monosomic, monosomy, pentasomic, pentasomy...
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    forsterite, tremolite, together with talc and chlorite. Subsequent metasomatism, probably associated with hydrothermal fluids from the late Caledonian...
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    of fluids from the magma that add chemicals to the surrounding rock (metasomatism). Any pre-existing type of rock can be modified by the processes of metamorphism...
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