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Record 1 2003-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

An argillaceous sediment that has undergone albitization as a result of contact metamorphism along the margins of a sodium-rich mafic intrusion.

DEF

Dense albite-quartz-chlorite metamorphic rock with accessory epidote, actinolite, titanite, and others, formed by low-grade contact metasomatism by diabase of shale, argillite or slate.

OBS

Named by Haussman in 1847, possibly from Greek "adinos," dense.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Roche du métamorphisme de contact, dense, schisteuse [...] constituée surtout de quartz et d'albite.

CONT

Parmi les cornéennes beaucoup plus rares développées autour d'autres roches ignées que le granite, citons les adinoles vertes, chargées d'albite et résultant du métamorphisme de schistes par les diabases.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Pizarra metamorfizada por contacto, de estructura compacta, y formada por albita y cuarzo.

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