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Record 1 2016-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Mineralogy
DEF

A greenschist in which the proportions of the hornblende-chlorite-epidote assemblage are more or less equal ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minéralogie
CONT

Les prasinites sont des schistes chloriteux contenant de l'épidote et de l'amphibole.

CONT

Des marnes on passe aux schistes calcarifères appelés schistes lustrés dans les Alpes, qui renferment d'abord de la séricite et de la chlorite, puis de l'épidote, de la zoïsite et de l'actinote lorsque la calcite entre en réaction. Ce sont alors des prasinites.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Mineralogía
DEF

Roca metamórfica verdosa, de grano fino, que forma esquistos [...]

OBS

[...] consta de anfíbol, clorita, epidota y feldespato.

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