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dilatant [dī′lāt·ənt] (chemistry) A material with the ability to increase in volume when its shape is changed. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1999, Fluidized hydrothermal breccia in dilatant faults during thrusting: the Colombian Emerald deposits, in McCaffrey, K. According to the interpretation provided by noted Nevada geophysicist Robert Ellis, the survey displayed extensive evidence of magnetic north-south dike swarms that are likely associated with a dilatant structural fabric parallel to but west of the Northern Nevada Rift. Among the scientific accomplishments of the Coast Mountains project were the discovery of "tadpole" granitic plutons, demonstrating the generation of granite in deep root zones leading to bodily upward movement in the dilatant "heads"; and the discovery of the then youngest high temperature-high pressure metamorphic zones in the circum-Pacific. |
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