remains solid. Synonyms of the word metasomatism are metasomatosis and metasomatic process. The word metasomatose can be used as a name for specific varieties...

foliation structures. The dominant green epidote in unakite rocks is the metasomatic alteration product of plagioclase feldspar, while the orthoclase and...

A calc–silicate rock is a rock produced by metasomatic alteration of existing rocks in which calcium silicate minerals such as diopside and wollastonite...

temperature environments. The hydrothermal fluids associated with the metasomatic processes can originate from a variety of sources; magmatic, metamorphic...

formula AlPO4 or Al(PO4)) is a rare high-temperature hydrothermal or metasomatic phosphate mineral. It has the same crystal structure as quartz with a...

commonly in contact with potassium feldspar. Myrmekite is formed under metasomatic conditions, usually in conjunction with tectonic deformations. It has...

of the University of Leicester calculated the plausibility of such a metasomatic process: It would require pressures of 4.5–6 gigapascals at a temperature...

albite, muscovite, biotite, and tourmaline. Beryl is sometimes found in metasomatic contacts of igneous intrusions with gneiss, schist, or carbonate rocks...

Katie; Deegan, Frances M.; Troll, Valentin R. (2020-10-18). "Magmatic and Metasomatic Effects of Magma–Carbonate Interaction Recorded in Calc-silicate Xenoliths...

The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall and Devon in the south-western...

association with ultramafic intrusions as a secondary alteration phase within metasomatic margins of large layered intrusions. In some cases the phlogopite is...

deposit is an assemblage of ore and calc-silicate minerals, formed by metasomatic replacement of carbonate rocks in the contact aureole of a pluton. Volcanogenic...

alteration when seawater circulates through hot volcanic rocks. It is a metasomatic rock with a microscopic or very-fine grain size produced by hydrothermal...

isolated pods, with no obvious feeder conduit. As a result, metamorphic or metasomatic origins have sometimes been suggested for pegmatites. A metamorphic pegmatite...

Color could vary from black, dark violet to light sky blue. It occurs as metasomatic replacements on the margins of lithium rich pegmatites. It was first...

present during metamorphism or magmatism. Conversely, these fluids may metasomatically alter a rock, introducing new Rb and Sr into the rock (generally during...

xenoliths remain the most enigmatic in terms of their origin due to metasomatic overprinting of their original composition. Models proposing a primary...

Fenite is a metasomatic alteration associated particularly with carbonatite intrusions and created, very rarely, by advanced carbon dioxide alteration...

processes that act in the present. Diamonds in the mantle form through a metasomatic process where a C–O–H–N–S fluid or melt dissolves minerals in a rock...

Uranium Curnamona Province Proterozoic Environment: Regional metasomatic, Group: Metasomatic iron, Type: Iron oxide U Mount Burton Northern Territory 12°58′37″S...

channels such as at Pannawonica, Western Australia; and the dominant metasomatically altered banded iron formation-related ores such as at Newman, the Chichester...

as gabbro and diabase, scapolite replaces feldspar by a secondary or metasomatic process. Some Norwegian scapolite-gabbros (or diorite) examined microscopically...

Duchač, K. C; Hanor, J. S. (September 1987). "Origin and timing of the metasomatic silicification of an early Archaean komatiite sequence, Barberton Mountain...

portions of shear zones that are formed as a result of cavity filling or metasomatic replacement are described as fahlbands. Beyschlag, Franz Heinrich August;...

Metallogenic Province Paleoproterozoic Environment: Regional metasomatic, Group: Metasomatic iron, Type: Iron oxide Au Woodcutters 12°58′05″S 131°06′45″E...

Belgian-German border are well known for their deposits of hemimorphite of metasomatic origin, especially Vieille Montagne in Belgium and Aachen in Germany...

Rodingite is a metasomatic rock composed of grossular-andradite garnet, calcic pyroxene, vesuvianite, epidote and scapolite. Rodingites are common where...

ionic/electrical conductors etc. The mineral is associated with the metasomatic end stages of magmatic intrusions. Pyrochlore crystals are usually well-formed...

sulfides), or via metasomatism of sulfide-free ultramafic rocks, where metasomatic fluids introduce sulfur, carbonate, and arsenic. This typically results...

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