adinolize

verb

Compounds

Combines

Forms

  • simple present : adinolize
  • simple present, singular, third person : adinolizes
  • simple past : adinolized
  • present participle : adinolizing
  • past participle : adinolized

Senses

  • to convert to adinole by contact metamorphism

Examples (not attached to a Sense)

    In general, near-surface exposures of shales are dominantly potassic except where they have been adinolized by contact with basic intrusions.

    Fe₂O₃/FeO ratios must be looked upon as the consequence of the presence in the igneous body of metasomatizing fluids which autometasomatize the body as well as adinolizing the country rock.