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POECILOBLASTIQUE [1 record]

Record 1 1999-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Petrography
DEF

... the texture produced by the simultaneous recrystallization of several minerals as a result of metamorphic processes. A characteristic feature of the texture thus produced is that any of the minerals involved may be found as inclusions in any of the other minerals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[...] texture due au développement de minéraux dans un solide et qui est la texture normale des roches métamorphiques.

CONT

La structure des roches métamorphiques [...] est apparue au fur et à mesure de la métamorphisation et s’est superposée à la structure préexistante. En général de nouveaux cristaux se sont développés progressivement, d’où le nom de cristalloblastes (du grec blastein : bourgeonner) [...] Cette germination et cette croissance en milieu solide qui caractérise la structure cristalloblastique se rencontrent dans la plupart des roches métamorphiques.

OBS

Terme général qui regroupe les structures diablastique, granoblastique, lépidoblastique, nématoblastique et poeciloblastique.

Spanish

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