Word of the Day:
epidote
What It Means
Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.
Epidote in Context
“Available compositional data for magmatic epidotes (Naney, 1983; Zen and Hammarstrom, 1984; Barth, unpublished data) suggest no significant solid solution beyond the epidote-clinozoisite binary.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from French épidote.
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