Definition of Argillic. Meaning of Argillic. Synonyms of Argillic

- Argillic alteration is hydrothermal alteration[citation needed] of wall rock which introduces clay minerals including kaolinite, smectite and illite. The...
- classification for a brown earth with an eluvial horizon above a slightly argillic, clayey illuvial horizon. This gives rise to a universal division of these...
- in soil taxonomy with their major characteristics: Alfisols: Must have argillic, natric, or kandic horizon; high-to-medium base saturation; moderately...
- quartz-sericite ****emblage. Phyllic alteration is often closely ****ociated with argillic alteration, which occurs at lower temperatures and dominantly affects plagioclase...
- biotite. This is common in porphyry copper and porphyry molybdenum deposits. Argillic alteration, commonly present in the distal areas of porphyry deposits,...
- argillans, and soil horizons with sufficient clay illuviation are termed argillic horizons. Cutans provide physical evidence, observable in the field, as...
- lowland Britain changed around 4250–4000 BC. During the Neolithic period, argillic (clayey) brownearths reigned in the landscape formed by the acidifying...
- commonly forms below an albic horizon. It has less clay content than an argillic horizon but is still a visible layer. In the pedogenesis process under...
- Diagnostic subsurface horizons Agric horizon Albic horizon Anhydric horizon Argillic horizon Calcic horizon Cambic horizon Duripan layer Fragipan layer Glossic...
- pot****ic, intermediate phyllic or QSP, and more distal propylitic and argillic alteration. Where veinlets are close together, the zones of alteration...