hydrothermal alteration in a sentence
Examples
- Post-eruption, meltwater derived from the ice cap has caused hydrothermal alteration of the volcano.
- A specific type of hydrothermal alteration termed " fenitization " is typically associated with carbonatite intrusions.
- Native nickel has been described as serpentinite due to hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rocks in New Caledonia and elsewhere.
- These rocks were subsequently subject to hydrothermal alteration by and rich which in multiple stages formed the mineral veins.
- They include the extensive hydrothermal alteration of rhyolites and gabbros and a central megabreccia created by hydrothermal dissolution and collapse.
- A collapse amphitheatre is found in these valleys, possibly because the underlying country rock was destabilized by hydrothermal alteration.
- Hydrothermal alteration may be driven by the formation of a deep magma reservoir and resulting hydrothermal circulation in overlying rocks.
- This hydrothermal alteration of susceptible rocks makes Corrida de Cori's peaks look snow-covered from a distance.
- Spilite is formed when basaltic lava reacts with seawater, or from hydrothermal alteration when seawater circulates through hot volcanic rocks.
- Like other chlorites, it is a product of the hydrothermal alteration of pyroxenes, amphiboles and biotite in igneous rock.