Epidote

Word EPIDOTE
Character 7
Hyphenation ep i dote
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Epidote"

What do we mean by epidote?

A lustrous yellow, green, or black mineral, Ca2(Al, Fe)3(SiO4)3OH, commonly found in metamorphic rock. noun

A common mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals belonging to the monoclinic system, also massive, generally of a pistachio-green color and of a vitreous luster. noun

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese. noun

Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks noun

Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.

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The word "epidote" in example sentences

The feldspar is decomposed with the resulting formation of epidote, which is quite prominent. ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

Here is nobly born quartz living with a green mineral, called epidote; and they are immense friends. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Kata Tjuta, covering about 3,500 ha, comprises 36 steep-sided rock domes of gently dipping Mount Currie conglomerate consisting of phenocrysts of fine grained acid and basic rocks, granite and gneiss in an epidote rich matrix. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Basically, a process called metamorphism caused the basalts in Shenandoah to recrystallize with new minerals, such as chlorite, epidote, and albite, which help give the rocks their greenish hue. ❋ Gardner, Lisa (2003)

Plagioclase remains a stable phase within the rock, though the mafic minerals have been altered primarily to chlorite + epidote. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The summit of Crystal Head is of flat tabular form; and the sides, which are both steep and rugged, are covered with stunted trees and high grass, now quite dry: the geology of this part is principally of siliceous sandstone; and on the beach we found large detached water-worn masses of the same rock, incrusted with quartz and epidote in a crystallized state. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

The rarer stones, sphene and epidote, likewise exhibit this property markedly. ❋ Frank Bertram Wade (N/A)

The wall rocks have undergone a "propylitic" alteration, with development of chlorite, epidote, and probably sericite, much as at Butte. ❋ Unknown (1915)

A fine grained compact gray rock, of aggregate structure, consisting chiefly of quartz, plagioclase and biotite, and the alteration products epidote and sericite. ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

Plagioclase, microcline and quartz are the predominating minerals, while biotite, titanite, epidote, apatite, zircon and garnet are present in smaller quantities. ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

The ore is a hard magnetite in a gangue of hornblende and epidote. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The ore is a hard, fine granular magnetite, disseminated in a gangue of hornblende, epidote and quartz. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The ore is magnetite and epidote hornblende gangue. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

They cannot go on growing together; the quartz crystal is five times as thick, and more than twenty times as strong [Footnote: Quartz is not much harder than epidote; the strength is only supposed to be in some proportion to the squares of the diameters.], as the epidote; but he stops at once, just in the very crowning moment of his life, when he is building his own summit! ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

He lets the pale little film of epidote grow right past him; stopping his own summit for it; and he never himself grows any more. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

[151] Quartz is not much harder than epidote; the strength is only supposed to be in some proportion to the squares of the diameters. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Now, you see, a comparatively large and strong quartz-crystal, and a very weak and slender little one of epidote, have begun to grow, close by each other, and sloping unluckily towards each other, so that they at last meet. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Now, you see, a comparatively large and strong quartz-crystal, and a very weak and slender little one of epidote, have begun to grow, close by each other, and sloping unluckily towards each other, so that at last they meet. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

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