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GABBRO FELDSPATHS SAUSSURITISES [1 record]

Record 1 1998-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Gabbro in which, as a result of metamorphism, the plagioclase is altered to saussurite (a gray to greenish mixture of fine-grained epidote, zoisite, albite, white mica, quartz, and others); contemporaneous with this saussuritization, pyroxenes may alter to uralite, chlorite, and iron oxides, and olivine may alter to serpentine, talc, and chlorite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minéralogie
DEF

Gabbro à l'intérieur duquel les feldspaths ont été altérés en saussurite.

OBS

Voir «saussurite» et «saussuritisation».

Spanish

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