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chloritic

chloritic adjective: containing chlorite.

Adjective

chloritic (not comparable)

  1. containing chlorite
    • Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of...1998 January 2, Jean Morrison, J. Lawford Anderson, “Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes”, in Science, volume 279, number 5347...
    • The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks.1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

Origin of chloritic

From chlorite + -ic.

Questions about chloritic

What does chloritic mean?
Chloritic means containing chlorite.
What part of speech is chloritic?
Chloritic is an adjective.

Words near chloritic in the dictionary

  1. Chloris
  2. chlorisondamine
  3. chloristic
  4. chlorite
  5. chlorites
  6. chloritic
  7. chloritisation
  8. chloritization
  9. chloritize
  10. chloritized
  11. chloritizes

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