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What does metasomatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Of or pertaining to metasomatism.
  2. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the metasoma.
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Dolerite dykes that cut the peridotite show chilled margins and local metasomatic calcic alteration.
Regional metasomatic dolomitization associated with tectonic disturbances in Lower Paleozoic of the Northern Baltic region.
Most of them are probably of metasomatic or anatectic origin.
Aplite and pegmatite sills and dykes are also common demonstrating that a metasomatic volatile-rich phase played an important role in leucogranite migration.
Metasomatic anorthosite formed by replacement of layered gabbroic troctolite in the Skaergaard intrusion is shown here.
Jadeite dykes are intruded within serpentinites and are the metasomatic products of crystallization from hydrous fluids reacting with the serpentinites.

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