epidotized, ppl. a.
(ˈɛpɪdəʊtaɪzd)
[f. epidote + -ize + -ed.]
Altered metamorphically into epidote. So ˌepidotiˈzation.
| 1888 J. Teall Brit. Petrography 150 The epidotisation of the felspar is an alteration process. 1890 [see chloritization]. 1930 Peach & Horne Geol. Scotl. 79 Beds with abundant pebbles of epidote and epidotized felspar. 1941 Proc. Prehist. Soc. VII. 58 The rock is identical with the epidotised tuffs. Ibid., It is only however near the rhyolite that they exhibit..epidotization. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. x. 158/2 All rocks are hydrothermally altered, resulting in uralitization and ch[l]oritization of pyroxene, saussuritization of felspar, and epidotization of the rock as a whole. Ibid. xii. 181/2 Hutton, McCraw (1950) reported chalcopyrite as scattered grains in epidotized breccia in greywacke and argillite in the Takitimu Mountains, Southland. |