Definition & Meaning | English word PELITIC
PELITIC
Definitions of PELITIC
- Relating to, or containing, pelite.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PELITIC in a Sentence
- More specifically, it lays within the Bigelow Brook Formation which consists of high grade pelitic schists and gneisses.
- He observed that as a pelitic rock undergoes higher pressures and temperatures, its mineral assemblage changes from predominantly chlorite to biotite to garnet to staurolite to kyanite to sillimanite.
- The Windermere consists primarily of coarse-grained feldspathic conglomerates and pebbly sandstones, with lesser amounts of pelitic shales, dolomites, and limestones.
- Ore bodies are in metamorphosed steeply dipping Precambrian pelitic and calcareous rocks of a roof pendant adjacent to a Cretaceous porphyritic quartz monzonite pluton.
- Subordinate to the already mentioned sandstones are conglomeratic and pelitic lithologies, interpreted as channel-fill and overbank deposits, respectively.
- Illite crystallinity is a technique used to classify low-grade metamorphic activity in pelitic rocks.
- The land, which is underlain with schistose grits and pelitic schists of the Upper Dalradian Londonderry Formation, slopes gradually towards the river.
- The lake is surrounded by late-Labradorian granitoid intrusions (dated 1660-1600 ma): megacrystic/porphyritic granite to granodiorite; early-Labradorian granitoid and associated rocks (dated 1678-1671 ma): foliated to gneissic granite and alkali feldspar granite, foliated to gneissic syenite, alkali feldspar syenite and alkali feldspar granite, and compositionally equivalent well-banded gneiss; and pre-Labradorian supracrustal rocks (dated 1800-1770 ma): pelitic schist and gneiss, quartz-feldspar psammitic schist and gneiss, and metasedimentary diatexite.
- This group, which consists of amphibolite facies pelitic gneiss and interbanded pelite, semi-pelite, psammite, quartzite and migmatites, Slices of Lewisian-type gneisses are found above the Sgurr Beag Thrust and are interpreted to represent pieces of basement to the group, with a highly sheared unconformable contact, incorporated during the Caledonian orogeny.
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