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Definition of Geyserite

Geyserite
Geyserite Gey"ser*ite, n. [From Geyser.] (Min.) A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

Meaning of Geyserite from wikipedia

- Geyserite, or siliceous sinter, is a form of opaline silica that is often found as crusts or layers around hot springs and geysers. Botryoidal geyserite...
- Ménilmontant (Paris), France, where it occurs as concretions within bituminous Early Oligocene Menilite Shales. Geyserite Hyalite Menilite on Mindat.org v t e...
- amorphous opal. Gradually the opal anneals into quartz, forming geyserite. Geyserite often covers the microbial mats that grow in geysers. As the mats...
- m****es. Named after Santa Fiora, Italy, fiorite is used as a gemstone. Geyserite Manutchehr-Danai, Mohsen (2000). Dictionary of Gems and Gemology. Springer-Verlag...
- aqueous solution Flint – Cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz Geyserite – Form of opaline silica often found around hot springs and geysers Greywacke –...
- cooling, the silica is deposited as geyserite, a form of opal (opal-A: SiO2·nH2O). This process is slow enough that geyserite is not all deposited immediately...
- earliest known life on land may have been found in 3.48-billion-year-old geyserite and other related mineral deposits (often found around hot springs and...
- hyalite, a colorless gl****-clear opal sometimes called Muller's gl****; geyserite, also called siliceous sinter, deposited around hot springs or geysers;...
- caldera. Many of the thermal features in Yellowstone build up sinter, geyserite, or travertine deposits around and within them. The various geyser basins...
- of Yellowstone National Park. It is noted for the particularly large geyserite sinter deposits, which form its cone. These deposits have been likened...