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Aggregates of micas
Sericite is the name given to very fine, ragged grains and aggregates of white (colourless) micas, typically made of muscovite, illite, or paragonite.
Sericite
Geological process
rocks. Phyllic alteration is characterised by the assemblage of quartz + sericite + pyrite, and occurs at high temperatures and moderately acidic (low pH)
Phyllic_alteration
Type of foliated metamorphic rock
achieves a preferred orientation. It is primarily composed of quartz, sericite mica, and chlorite. Phyllite has fine-grained mica flakes, whereas slate
Phyllite
Rock formations, Russia
Rain, snow, wind, frost and heat gradually eroded the mountains. Solid sericite-quartzite schists, from which the remains are composed, were more resistant
Manpupuner_rock_formations
Earth's highest mountain
and chlorite-biotite phyllite intercalated with minor amounts of biotite-sericite-quartz schist. Between 7,000 and 7,600 m (23,000 and 24,900 ft), the lower
Mount_Everest
Process of mineral alteration
development of fine-grained white mica assemblages collectively referred to as sericite. In the Buchans–Roberts Arm Belt of Newfoundland, these assemblages include
Sericitic_alteration
American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse (1986–2002)
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Sunday_Silence
Group of phyllosilicate minerals
for Al in the Y site and a corresponding increase in Si in the Z site. Sericite is the name given to very fine, ragged grains and aggregates of white (colorless)
Mica
Group of non-expanding clay minerals
in weathering and hydrothermal environments; it may be a component of sericite. It is common in sediments, soils, and argillaceous sedimentary rocks as
Illite
Group of phyllosilicate minerals
clay minerals. Chlorite is found in pelites along with quartz, albite, sericite, and garnet, and is also found in associate with actinolite and epidote
Chlorite_group
Metal sulfide ore deposit
chlorite ± sericite ± silica. Often the host rock is entirely replaced by chlorite, which may appear as a chlorite schist in deformed examples. Sericite zone
Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit
Volcanogenic_massive_sulfide_ore_deposit
Russian island in the Arctic Ocean
rocks, which are about 2 km (6,600 ft) thick, consist of Upper Proterozoic sericite and chlorite slate and schist that contain minor amounts of metavolcanic
Wrangel_Island
Feldspar mineral found in igneous rock
gridiron twinning. Distinguishable from sanidine by a larger 2Vx. Other characteristics Low negative relief; alters to sericite or clay (commonly) References
Orthoclase
Type of copper ore body
typically have an outer epidote – chlorite mineral alteration zone. A quartz – sericite alteration zone typically occurs closer to the center and may overprint
Porphyry_copper_deposit
Chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids
selvages. Quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration, in which these minerals can be deposited both in veins and in a disseminated manner; sericite in particular
Metasomatism
The underlying Génis sericite schist is very rich in the minerals quartz, chlorite and muscovite (variety sericite). The sericite schist is probably of
Génis_Unit
Aggregate of hydrothermally altered plagioclase feldspar
is a microscopic mixture of several other minerals, zoisite, epidote, sericite, albite or other sodium-rich feldspar along with possibly scapolite. The
Saussurite
Igneous rock-forming feldspar mineral
continuous and do not "pinch and swell." Alters to Commonly alters to sericite or clay. Relief Low negative relief References Optical sign Biaxial negative
Microcline
Former municipality in Manche, France
squared for lintels. The greenschist, whose colour comes from chlorite and sericite, are used mainly for roofing in Nord-Cotentin, but also masonry in Cherbourg
Cherbourg
Place in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
quartzite-phyllites, and sericite schist, which show a continuous transition from basaltic lavas tuff to the chlorite and sericites schist. In Bagrote valley
Bagrot_Valley
Digital printing technology with wide color range
Quality of Dye Sublimation Transfer Printed Paper: SiO 2, CaCO 3, Talc, and Sericite". Advances in Materials Science and Engineering. 2016: 1–10. doi:10.1155/2016/4863024
Dye-sublimation_printing
Unorganized area in Ontario, Canada
body. The Golden Giant Mine produced 446,858 ounces in 1994 from a quartz sericite schist host rock. The David Bell Mines produced 204,251 ounces in 1994
Unorganized Thunder Bay District
Unorganized_Thunder_Bay_District
Phyllosilicate mineral in the dioctahedral mica group
layered silicate. Structurally, brammallite is quite similar to muscovite or sericite with slightly more silicon, magnesium, iron, and water and slightly less
Brammallite
Silver mine in Coahuila, Mexico
contain disseminated galena, sphalerite and sulfosalts within phyllic (sericite–pyrite–quartz) and proplytic (chlorite–epidote–pyrite) hydrothermal alteration
Peñasquito_Mine
Mountain range in North Carolina, United States
and ash recrystallized to very fine quartz–sericite (mica); feldspar partly changed to albite and sericite; and mafic lavas were replaced by chlorite
Uwharrie_Mountains
Mountain range in Germany
narrow zone of weakly metamorphic rocks such as phyllites, greenschists and sericite gneisses. They are appear greenish through chlorite and epidote. The starting
Taunus
United States historic place
about 1,000 to 2,000 feet thick on Greylock and "consists of muscovite (sericite), chlorite, and quartz schist." It lies above a formation called "Bellows
Mount_Greylock
Economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust
Alteration is nonexistent to very weak at best, and the weak chlorite and sericite are believed to be mainly post-ore effects. Other post-depositional alteration
Uranium_ore
Zinc-lead deposits
quartz and carbonate veining and pervasive ankerite-siderite-chlorite-sericite alteration. The feeders themselves do not need to be mineralized Near the
Sedimentary exhalative deposits
Sedimentary_exhalative_deposits
Village in Leicestershire, England
mottled pink-grey texture. The rock consists mainly of feldspars altered to sericite, some showing relict twinning. They are interspersed with dark areas which
Markfield
Form of chemical weathering that affects jointed bedrock
results in the formation of abundant secondary minerals such as kaolinite, sericite, serpentine, montmorillonite, and chlorite and a corresponding increase
Spheroidal_weathering
American petrologist (1931–2025)
(grid pattern, light gray). Plagioclase of myrmekite is speckled brown (sericite alteration). Microcline penetrates the plagioclase along fractures and
Lorence_G._Collins
National park in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
westernmost portion of the park, sandwiching the Precambrian Love Cove Group sericite and chlorite schists. A Pleistocene ice cap flowed radially across the
Terra_Nova_National_Park
Mine in Maniema, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fine-grained sericite schists contain gold-bearing veins. Guartz stockworks hosted in metasediments have higher gold concentration than the sericite schists
Namoya_Mine
Mine in South Australia
(dolomite, sandstone, andesite) which is intensively hematite, chlorite and sericite altered. Major sulfide minerals are pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite
Prominent_Hill_mine
– Spotted white, pinkish brown – ≤ 30% clay minerals (i.e. kaolinite, sericite etc.) – Unaltered rock forming minerals (i.e. feldspar, biotite, quartz
Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits
Regolith-hosted_rare_earth_element_deposits
copper-producing state. The ore was chalcopyrite with pyrite and pyrrhotite in sericite schist host rock. The Elizabeth deposit was discovered in 1793 and started
Copper mining in the United States
Copper_mining_in_the_United_States
Volcano in Pakistan
alteration has given rise to alunite, kaolinite, phengite, propylite and sericite. Potassium-argon (K-Ar) dating of the Miri summit has yielded an age of
Koh-i-Sultan
Mine in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
with pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, in a zone rich in chlorite and sericite. Montagne d'Or is a mining project set up as a gold concession in French
Montagne_d'Or_mine
Bornite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Jarosite, Muscovite (var: Sericite), Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz Giraldo Gold, Silver, Coal Girardota Gold
List of mining areas in Colombia
List_of_mining_areas_in_Colombia
the war effort. Beginning in 1951, the deposit was mined for associated sericite, which was used as a white filler. Gold is associated with silicic, kaolinitic
Gold mining in the United States
Gold_mining_in_the_United_States
Volcano in Chile
Hydrothermal alteration has given rise to clay, oxidation products and sericite. Obsidian was quarried on the mountain. López et al. 2012, p. 600. López
Toconce_(volcano)
Substantial alteration has yielded albite, calcite, epidote, phyllosilicates, sericite and zeolites. Two different ages have been obtained on Antilla rocks, the
Antilla_magmatic_complex
includes greenschist and amphibolite with small intercalations of quartz-sericite schist and quartzite, dated to 743 million years ago in the Proterozoic
Geology_of_Ecuador
migmatites at its base, followed by gneisses, micaschists and finally sericite schists and chlorite schists at the top, the schists at the top only being
Geology_of_the_Massif_Central
Argentinian volcano
which indicated the rocks were highly oxidized. Phyllic (pyrite-quartz-sericite) and potassic (biotite-orthoclase) alteration is noticeable in satellite
Farallon_Negro_(volcano)
Type of ore
deeper albite-magnetite assemblages trending toward silica-K-feldspar-sericite in the upper portions of the deposits. Gangue minerals are typically some
Iron oxide copper gold ore deposits
Iron_oxide_copper_gold_ore_deposits
Mesoproterozoic pluton in New Mexico, U.S.
percent muscovite. Present as accessories are opaque minerals, chlorite, sericite, myrmekite apatite, sphene, zircon, and epidote. Microcline crystals are
Joaquin_quartz_monzonite
patented in Norway in 1909. Bergan Castle contains an intensely folded sericite quartzite or muscovite quartzite, partly blastomylonitic. 80°39′S 20°38′W
Shotton_Snowfield
Uninhabited island in the Russian Arctic
sequence of sandstone, phyllite, quartzose sandstone, quartz-chlorite-sericite schist mylonite, and cataclastic quartz syenite. These rocks are of either
Herald_Island_(Arctic)
developed with metasomatic replacement of primary minerals by carbonate, sericite, albite and quartz. Currently 25 deposits have been identified and explored
Zazhoginskoye
Geological petrification process
Form of silica Manuels Spherulites of rhyolites Chalcedonic quartz Clarenville Groundmass of rocks Chalcedonic quartz with sericite along glassy cracks
Silicification
Island in Lyakhovsky Islands, Russia
exposures of Late Proterozoic schistose, quartzose sandstones and phyllitic, sericite-quartz schist (turbidites) also occur in the southeastern part of Bolshoy
Bolshoy_Lyakhovsky_Island
Area of Cornwall, England
the development of the assemblage pumpellyite + actinolite + chlorite + sericite + albite + carbonate ± clinozoisite ± prehnite in the basic volcanics.
Meneage
Mineral deposits from seafloor hydrothermal vents
chloritic (including Mg-rich ones) and phyllic alteration (dominated by “sericite”, mostly illite), and also silicification, deep and shallow talcose alteration
Seafloor massive sulfide deposits
Seafloor_massive_sulfide_deposits
(pottery stone), dunite. Carbonates – dolomite, limestone. Clays – kaolinite, sericite, bentonite, fuller's earth. Soft and heat insulating stone – pyrophyllite
Mining_in_Japan
Geologic formation in the eastern US
microscope the rock shows original plagioclase that has been replaced with sericite and some darker opaque material. Also found throughout the rock are spots
Catoctin_Formation
Gold mine in Ontario, Canada
Properties from Newmont. The grade of the ore is 0.36, in a host rock of quartz sericite schist. The mine produced 446,858 ounces in 1994 with fully automated ore
Golden_Giant_Mine
reactivation of faults and the transformation of psammite schist to chlorite-sericite schist. A third event, preserved in the Limejuice Zone produced high-grade
Capricorn_orogeny
Geologic formation in New Mexico, US
quartzite beds, 3 to 5 feet (0.91 to 1.52 m) thick, interbedded with thinner sericite-bearing quartzite beds. A few beds are greenish to white. The individual
Sais_Quartzite
geological events, processes, or rocks arranged in chronological order. sericite A white potash-mica, similar to muscovite in chemical composition and general
Glossary_of_geology
mica granite which means there are amounts of both muscovite mica and sericite present. There are also large amounts of quartz and Feldspar (mainly K-feldspar)
Dedham_Granite
Place in Maidan Wardak and Bamyan, Afghanistan
phyllite. The Awband Formation is made up of schists (quartz-sericite, quartzchlorite-sericite, quartz-sericitechlorite and carbonaceoussericite) that are
Hajigak_mining_concession
Geologic formation in New Mexico, US
color, 2 to 7 feet (0.6 to 2 m) thick. There are also scattered beds of sericite schist that become more numerous in the uppermost part of the formation
White_Ridge_Quartzite
Geologic formation in New Mexico, US
red slate and siltstone, while the central portion mostly is greenish sericite schist with occasional slate and siltstone beds. The uppermost beds are
Blue_Springs_Formation
River in Guyana
The geological make up of the river is schistose quartz-porphyrite and sericite schist, and quartz boulders making up any major river obstruction. The
Kuribrong_River
other cases, paleoplacer alluvial gold is included in conglomerates and sericite and quartz schist in the Tarkwaian Group. The Aniuri Mine in southeast
Geology_of_Ivory_Coast
Tin-copper deposit in Russia
cellular-pyrite Non-metallics: quartz-tourmaline, carbonates, chlorite, sericite. 85-90% of tin is presented by cassiterite, mainly quartz associated and
Sable_tin_deposit
Category of granites
order of abundance, chlorite, white mica, clay minerals, epidote, and sericite. Cordierite and sillimanite are rarely seen without alteration halos of
S-type_granite
Geologic formation in Northeastern Ontario, Canada
crosssection. Dark green subaerial pyroclastics composed of chlorite and sericite are uncommon and have sustained preferential compression in response to
Temagami_Greenstone_Belt
Changes of rock due to pressure and heat near a subduction zone
metabasites are paragonite, chlorite, titanite, stilpnomelane, quartz, albite, sericite, and pumpellyite. Tremolite + Chlorite + Albite = Glaucophane + Epidote
Subduction_zone_metamorphism
Commune in Corsica, France
cultivation terraces, developing on a soil composed partly of silky, wrinkled sericite schists, and partly of very resistant ophiolites composed of volcanic rocks
Pino,_Haute-Corse
Group of plutons in central Argentina
number of fractures of the batholith show greisen alteration with quartz, sericite, fluorite and tourmaline. No metallic deposits are known from these greisens
Achala_Batholith
sedimentary-volcanic sequences of albite, epidote and chlorite shales, albite-quartz-sericite shales, amphibole metagabbro, and metadiabase, such as the Vlasina Complex
Geology_of_North_Macedonia
Ghost town in Nevada
several silver halides. Wonder is classified as a low-sulfidation (adularia-sericite) epithermal deposit. The veins were deeply oxidized, and there was some
Wonder,_Nevada
Mountain range located in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Precambrian period and is basically formed by metaquartzite in association with sericite-schist. The quartzite rocks are quite resistant to weathering, and that
Três_Pontas_Mountains
Mountain in Washington, United States
augite diorite and quartz diorite. Dikes with quartz, tourmaline, and sericite occur within the mass, which has a light color aggregated from white to
Silver Star Mountain (Skamania County, Washington)
Silver_Star_Mountain_(Skamania_County,_Washington)
galena, bournonite, unidentified sulfide minerals, foci of apatite, and sericite-containing pyrite, and is typically interface between scheelite and dolomite
Ophirite
modern exploration data demonstrate commercial gold presence in quartz-sericite-chlorite and quartz-alunite rocks in close vicinity to the hydrothermal
Merisi_Mining_District
Geologic formation in Australia
replacing organic remains such as ostracods. Chlorite and sericite: Fine flakes of chlorite and sericite are also present. Rock fragments: Sub-angular fragments
Wianamatta_Group
Hills. Kisii soapstone is a hydrothermal rock that is mostly composed of sericite and kaolinite. Its development is linked to hydrothermically changed lavas
Soapstone mining in Tabaka, Kenya
Soapstone_mining_in_Tabaka,_Kenya
Cu-Au deposit in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, China: significance of sericite alteration for Cu-Au exploration". Ore Geology Reviews. 127 103844. Bibcode:2020OGRv
Spectroradiometry for Earth and planetary remote sensing
Spectroradiometry_for_Earth_and_planetary_remote_sensing
hills, the tuff has been altered to varying degrees, forming propylite and sericite. A number of individual veins of ore rock cross-cut the Porco tuff and
Porco_(caldera)
Giant dyke swarm in northeast Botswana
size is from fine to medium. Fresh mineral alteration has occurred as sericite, serpentine, and chlorite are found. In Proterozoic dykes of the Save-Limpopo
Okavango_Dyke_Swarm
Mountain in Snohomish County, Washington, U.S.
Mountain is underlain by the Darrington Phyllite, a graphitic quartz–albite–sericite phyllite and mica schist that, together with the overlying Shuksan Greenschist
Gold Mountain (Snohomish County, Washington)
Gold_Mountain_(Snohomish_County,_Washington)
present in central Belarus. In the south, the series is made up of chlorite-sericite schists, rhyolites, quartzite, andesite, and dacites. In this part of the
Geology_of_Belarus
Volcanic field in Nye County, Nevada
inclusions, and nodules. Alteration has formed chlorite, epidote, and sericite. In the northern part of the volcanic field, lavas have a porphyritic (with
Lunar_Crater_volcanic_field
Iron mines in Torre de Moncorvo, Portugal
magnetite and rare supergene limonite. The gangue consists mainly of quartz, sericite, chlorite, albite, and apatite. The Moncorvo iron ore deposits are considered
Torre_de_Moncorvo_mines
diagenetic phases such as goethite, pyrite, glauconite, K-feldspars, quartz, sericite, chlorite, and carbonates. Iberulites are co-associations of well-defined
Microspherulite
River in the Tembien highlands of Ethiopia
volcanic and sedimentary rocks (impure marble, slate, calcareous siltstone, sericite-chlorite schist, greywacke, and tuff), with a minimum thickness between
Tsaliet
Rare and complex tellurate mineral
running through rhyolite. It is often found as a thin film on quartz, sericite, calcite or baryte, but it also forms botryoidal aggregates. It is often
Tlapallite
Plutonic rock found in New Mexico, US
myrmekite. There are also traces of zircon, apatite, sphene, epidote, and sericite are present. Some of the plagioclase takes the form of subhedral megacrysts
San_Miguel_gneiss
Lake in Ontario, Canada
have 12% plagioclase, 20% tremolite, 35% clinopyroxene, 8% chlorite, 18% sericite, 3% magnetite and 2% calcium-garnet. Outcrops of high magnesium ultramafic
McArthur_Lake_(Ontario)
Mountain in Tasmania, Australia
metamorphosed sediments containing a laminate of graphite, mica quartz-sericite and sericite schists. The area around the mountain has an annual average rainfall
Quamby_Bluff
Geologic formation in Austria and Germany
greenish layers the ratio is < 1, the coloration in the latter being tied to sericite, chlorite and maybe pyrite. In thin section it can be observed that the
Ruhpolding_Formation
Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
chlorite-bearing rhyodacitic metatuffs and metagreywackes and intercalated sericite schists (middle to upper Cambrian). The most recent formation, noted CFvs
La_Bachellerie
fold. The Ganguan Greenstone Belt is 3.2 billion years old and contains sericite quartzites, quartz phyllite, talc schist poor in quartz and chlorite schist
Geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Geology_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
River in British Columbia, Canada
metres (75 ft) of boulder clay. Rock outcrops are greenschist, silicified sericite, thinly bedded argillites, and serpentinite. The significant tributaries
Germansen_River
Caldera in the Andes of Argentina
by alteration include calcite, chlorite, epidote, kaolinite, rutile and sericite. Effusive activity occurred during the upper Miocene in the area. This
Luingo
Geologic formation in Colombia
pyrite crystals. The matrix is formed by cements of calcite, iron oxide, sericite and chlorite. Fossils of Berriasella colombiana and Pseudoosterella ubalaensis
Murca_Formation
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Girl/Female
German, Teutonic
All Ruler
Female
Greek
(ΆτÏοπος) Greek name ATROPOS means "cannot be turned; inflexible." In mythology, this is the name of one of the original three Fates.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Crittenden.
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Tamil
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Welsh
Welsh name derived from the word caru, CARYS means "love."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; possibly a variant of Stocken, a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) stumps’, from the weak plural of stocc ‘stump’.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Traditional
Salutation
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian
Capacity
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Pour
Girl/Female
Tamil
Conqueror
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n.
A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.