Metasomatism is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids. Synonyms to the word metasomatism are metasomatose and metasomatic process. The word metasomatose can also be used as a name for specific varieties of metasomatism (for example Mg-metasomatose and Na-metasomatose). Metasomatism can occur via the action of hydrother...
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• (n.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.
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The chemical alteration of rocks or minerals by interaction with liquids. The alteration must only take place if the rock or mineral was not in a molten state in order for it to be metasomatism.
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Met`a·so'ma·tism noun [ Prefix
meta- + Greek ..., ..., body.]
(Geol.) An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary
metamorphism , as implying simply a recrystallization. --
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metamorphism caused chiefly by introduction of fluids and/or ions. The adjective metasomatic is used to described rocks that have undergone such changes resulting from such activities.
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Where a host rock reacting with with hot fluids forms new minerals.
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The metamorphic processes that occur as a result of the passage of chemically active fluids through a rock, adding to or removing constituents during metamorphism.
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