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Specialty Definition: EPIDOTIZATION

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MiningThe hydrothermal introduction of epidote into rocks or the alteration of rocks in which plagioclase is albitized, freeing the anorthite molecule for the formation of epidote and zoisite, often accompanied by chloritization. These processes are characteristically associated with metamorphism. (references)

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