Definition of Granulite. Meaning of Granulite. Synonyms of Granulite

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Definition of Granulite

Granulite
Granulite Gran"u*lite, n. [From Granule.] (Geol.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

Meaning of Granulite from wikipedia

- Granulites are a class of high-grade metamorphic rocks of the granulite facies that have experienced high-temperature and moderate-pressure metamorphism...
- Survey strongly discourages the use of granulite as a classification for rock metamorphosed to the granulite facies. Instead, such rock will often be...
- the resulting fractionated granulite rises steeply in the crust, water exits from its supercriticality phase, the granulite starts to crystallize, becomes...
- The Lapland Granulite Belt is an elongate and arcuate zone of granulite rock in the Cap of the North spanning areas within Norway, Finland and Murmansk...
- calcite + diopside ± forsterite (higher pressure and temperature) The granulite facies is the highest grade of metamorphism at medium pressure. The depth...
- as granulites in the lower continental crust at high thermal gradients. This leads to significant extraction of hydrous felsic melts from granulite-facies...
- sometimes describe the leucogranite of the Mont as "granulite", but this granitic meaning of granulite is now obsolete. The mount has a cir****ference of...
- (2,356 ft) high Mt Sokosti. The range is mostly two-billion-year-old granulite. The last ice age ended 9500 years ago in Saariselkä. Saariselkä is partly...
- tectonic province, a Neoproterozoic mobile belt known as the Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT) or Pandyan Mobile Belt. This geologic province represents...
- Eclogite Blueschist Greenschist Prehnite- Pumpellyite Zeolite Granulite Amphibolite Hornfels Sanidinite P (kbar) T (°C) 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700...