Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made up of, characterized by, or containing sericite.
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Examples
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Where sericite is dominant, the alteration is called sericitic alteration.
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The chloritic phases are usually farther from the ore deposit than the sericitic phases, indicating less intense and probably cooler conditions of deposition.
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The lowest bed of a calcarous sericitic schist [9] is four feet thick and underlies a bed of schistose lime stone [10] six feet in thickness, which is in turn covered by a finely laminated phyllite,
The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901
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The silicified sericitic and chloritic schists are here filled with quartz stringers and lenticles, both the quartz and portions of the schists being auriferous.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The rocks are argillaceous, sericitic and chloritic, metamorphosed slates and schists, sedimentary pre Jura-trias slates, and ancient devitrified volcanic rocks.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The ore bodies consist of masses of chloritic and sericitic schists, intermixed with pyrite and chalcopyrite.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The gold is associated with sulphides, sericitic alteration and minor quartz veinlets although the open-pittable resource is largely oxidised.
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Alteration is typical of gold porphyry deposits as exemplified by a potassic-calcic core surrounded by sericitic, intermediate argillic, and propyllitic alteration zones.
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The metasediments include greywacke, siltstones, sericitic and chlorite schist, and graphite schist.
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The metasediments include greywacke, siltstones, sericitic and chlorite schist, and graphite schist.
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