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ARENDALITE [1 record]

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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.

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