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Chloritic vs Viridite - What's the difference?

chloritic | viridite |

As an adjective chloritic

is containing chlorite.

As a noun viridite is

a greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks.

chloritic

English

Adjective

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  • containing chlorite
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=January 2, Jean Morrison & J. Lawford Anderson, Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes, Science citation
  • , passage=Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of the Whipple Mountains yielded quartz-epidote fractionations that range from 4.1 to 6.4 per mil and increase systematically toward the fault. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow., title=The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Charles Darwin, title=More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I have not the least doubt of such facts occurring, from what I have seen (and described at M. Video) of portions of fine chloritic schists being entangled in the midst of a gneiss district. }}

    viridite

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mineralogy) A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks.
  • (Webster 1913)