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Terms vs Kelyphite - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and kelyphite

is that terms is while kelyphite is (mineralogy) a substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.

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    kelyphite

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    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
  • *{{quote-journal
    • , date = 2000-05-19 , first = Kenneth D. , last = Collerson , coauthors = et al. , title = Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific , journal = , issn = 0036-8075 , doi = 10.1126/science.288.5469.1215 , volume = 288 , issue = 5469 , pages = 1215-1223 , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/288/5469/1215 , passage = Relationships shown in Fig. 3 , B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host . }}
  • * Obata, M.; Ozawa, K.; Spengler, D. in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02
  • *:Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.