hornfels in English

noun
1
a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock consisting largely of quartz, mica, and particular feldspars.
The slate, where thermally metamorphosed, has been turned into siliceous hornfels and mica schist.
noun
    hornstone

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1. Contact metamorphism of the hornblende hornfels and albite–epidote hornfels facies has been induced by the granitic intrusions.

2. Astite [ A mica-andalusite-hornfels

3. They consist of auriferous, sheeted quartz veins that cut six Cretaceous stocks and their hornfels.

4. In continuation of a former paper (Chatterjee, 1962), further data pertaining to vesuvianite-bearing mineral parageneses from the greenschist fades of the western Alps, albite-epidote-hornfels facies of eastern Harz Mountains as well as from the hornblende hornfels facies of the Oslo region are reported.

5. It is suggested that the almandine xenocrysts in the tonalite are of accidental origin and represent residuals from the assimilation of garnet-rich hornfels by tonalite.

6. The spatial arrangement of the tungsten molybdenum zones, intrusive styles, rock compositions, and composite nature of the rhyolite porphyry stock suggest that this deposit is of the Climax type.Brecciating fluids emanating from the stock were regulated by a highly metamorphosed layer of shale, now preserved as a hornfels.