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KHONDALITE [1 record]

Record 1 2013-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

[A] sillimanite- and garnet-rich siliceous schist, gneiss, and granulite, together with minor proportions of garnetiferous quartzite and of a white rock resembling limestone ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Roche métamorphique à grenats et graphite.

OBS

[Les] khondalites de l'Inde et de Ceylan [...] ont un faciès hautement métamorphique de gneiss à grenat, sillimanite, orthose, sans biotite : elles ont une composition chimique de roches argileuses.

Spanish

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