chloritization love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, the alteration of minerals in a rock into chlorite.

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Examples

  • The chloritization is generally accompanied by very intense silicification, with occasional evidence of porcelanite.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Results indicated a strong continuity of a quartz stockwork system accompanied by strong silicification, local chloritization and weakly disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite with occasional chalcopyrite and sphalerite.

    StreetInsider.com News Articles 2010

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