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Sericite is the name
given to very fine,
ragged grains and
aggregates of
white (colourless) micas,
typically made of muscovite, illite, or paragonite....
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achieves a
preferred orientation. It is
primarily composed of quartz,
sericite mica, and chlorite.
Phyllite has fine-grained mica flakes,
whereas slate...
- rocks.
Phyllic alteration is
characterised by the ****emblage of
quartz +
sericite + pyrite, and
occurs at high
temperatures and
moderately acidic (low pH)...
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country rock.
Plagioclase feldspar within the rock is
converted to
sericite (
sericite is not a mineral; it is a term that is used to
describe any fine-grained...
- Rain, snow, wind,
frost and heat
gradually eroded the mountains.
Solid sericite-quartzite schists, from
which the
remains are composed, were
eroded less...
- and chlorite-biotite
phyllite intercalated with
minor amounts of biotite-
sericite-quartz schist.
Between 7,000 and 7,600 m (23,000 and 24,900 ft), the lower...
- The
underlying Génis
sericite schist is very rich in the
minerals quartz,
chlorite and
muscovite (variety
sericite). The
sericite schist is
probably of...
- for Al in the Y site and a
corresponding increase in Si in the Z site.
Sericite is the name
given to very fine,
ragged grains and
aggregates of
white (colorless)...
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sericite +/- silica.
Often the host rock is
entirely replaced by chlorite,
which may
appear as a
chlorite schist in
deformed examples.
Sericite zone...
- selvages. Quartz-
sericite-pyrite alteration, in
which these minerals can be
deposited both in
veins and in a
disseminated manner;
sericite in particular...
