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ARENDALITE [1 record]

Record 1 2002-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

... Bugge ... holds that in the arendalites and associated rocks, formed by reaction and diffusion in the solid state, 'there has taken place a homogenization of the heterogeneous rock series, the driving forces being the differences in chemical potentials'.

OBS

The following are all useless local or varietal names for charnockites: akafoamite, arendalites ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[...] diorite de la série des charnockites avec hypersthène.

CONT

Il s'agit tout d'abord des «arendalites», roches granulitiques de type charnockite-norite qui [...] entrent dans la catégorie des «migmatites», étant le fruit de la transformation métasomatique «in situ» d'un complexe préexistant de gneiss dont elles renferment des enclaves et auxquels elles passent latéralement.

Spanish

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