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Definition of Metasomatic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metasomatic
Literary usage of Metasomatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genesis of Ore Deposits by František Pošepný (1902)
"Among the minerals which yield not at all or only with difficulty to metasomatic
influences are apatite, muscovite, zircon and chromite. ..."
2. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"Under especially favourable conditions metasomatic alteration may proceed ...
Knowledge of the fact that metasomatic deposits almost without exception occur ..."
3. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"In many vein types of the interior Cordilleran province the metasomatic carbonates
... Ore minerals develop abundantly by metasomatic action in such rocks. ..."
4. General Economic Geology: A Textbook by William Harvey Emmons (1922)
"In metasomatic replacement reprecipitation generally succeeds solution so closely
that they seem to be essentially parts of a single process. ..."
5. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Irregular Ore-Formations—Masses occupying Cavities ; metasomatic Replacement;
... In some cases they may be the result of metasomatic action, ..."
6. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"metasomatic REPLACEMENT OF COUNTRY ROCK BY ORE. This process, which has been
repeatedly referred to already, is of widespread occurrence. ..."
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