adularize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From adularia.
Verb
[edit]adularize (third-person singular simple present adularizes, present participle adularizing, simple past and past participle adularized)
- (geology) to gain or be replaced by adularia
- 1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153:
- At some localities the sanidite is adularizing.
- 1935, Nevada Bureau of Mines, Bulletin:
- […] albite, calcite, and pyrite -- are compounds of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and iron, which are the principal elements removed during adularization. The peripheral relation of the chloritized rocks to the adularized rocks […]
- 1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153: