Definition of Sericite. Meaning of Sericite. Synonyms of Sericite

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Definition of Sericite

Sericite
Sericite Ser"i*cite, n. [L. sericus silken.] (Min.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

Meaning of Sericite from wikipedia

- Sericite is the name given to very fine, ragged grains and aggregates of white (colourless) micas, typically made of muscovite, illite, or paragonite....
- achieves a preferred orientation. It is primarily composed of quartz, sericite mica, and chlorite. Phyllite has fine-grained mica flakes, whereas slate...
- rocks. Phyllic alteration is characterised by the ****emblage of quartz + sericite + pyrite, and occurs at high temperatures and moderately acidic (low pH)...
- country rock. Plagioclase feldspar within the rock is converted to sericite (sericite is not a mineral; it is a term that is used to describe any fine-grained...
- and chlorite-biotite phyllite intercalated with minor amounts of biotite-sericite-quartz schist. Between 7,000 and 7,600 m (23,000 and 24,900 ft), the lower...
- for Al in the Y site and a corresponding increase in Si in the Z site. Sericite is the name given to very fine, ragged grains and aggregates of white (colourless)...
- in weathering and hydrothermal environments; it may be a component of sericite. It is common in sediments, soils, and argillaceous sedimentary rocks as...
- clay minerals. Chlorite is found in pelites along with quartz, albite, sericite, and garnet, and is also found in ****ociate with actinolite and epidote...
- Rain, snow, wind, frost and heat gradually eroded the mountains. Solid sericite-quartzite schists, from which the remains are composed, were eroded less...
- +/- sericite +/- silica. Often the host rock is entirely replaced by chlorite, which may appear as a chlorite schist in deformed examples. Sericite zone...