adularization

[ə‚jül·ə·rə′zā·shən]

(geology)

Replacement by or introduction of the mineral adularia.

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4a, b, c and e), showing an alteration zone, from the proximal mines with silicification, pyritization and adularization to the distal mines with sericitization, illitization and propylitization.

Characteristics of genetic mineralogy of pyrite and quartz and their indicating significance in the Gaosongshan Gold Deposit, Heilongjiang Province, NE China/Caracteristicas de mineralogia genetica de piritas y cuarzos y su importancia en el yacimiento aurifero de Gaosongshan, Provincia de Heilongjiang, al noreste de China

The gangue minerals are quartz, rhodochrosite, fluorite, calcite, and dolomite, which are not accordant with the typical characteristics of alternation in epithermal deposits (e.g., adularization or alunitization [24, 76, 77]), which can further rule out the possibility that the Zhijiadi deposit is a kind of epithermal deposit.

Genesis of the Zhijiadi Ag-Pb-Zn Deposit, Central North China Craton: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and Stable Isotope Data

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