fenite

English

Noun

fenite (countable and uncountable, plural fenites)

1. (mineralogy) A metasomatic rock often containing carbonatite intrusions
   • 1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210:

     There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.

Derived terms

• fenitic
• fenitisation, fenitization
• fenitise, fenitize