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What is an aureole?

What is an aureole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) Corona.
  2. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
  3. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
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A thermal metamorphic aureole is developed in the sedimentary country rocks.
Einstein's wild hair is not the mad scientist's coiffure but a secular aureole, bespeaking his superhuman intelligence and wisdom.
Facing him was a spry elfin-faced girl with an aureole of blonde hair around her head and intent dark eyes.
She rubs pigment into engraved lines and allows this to produce a slick aureole around the image.
This clearly has major implications for the thermal history of the aureole.
There is abundant evidence for a significant and important influence of hydrothermal fluids on element mobility in the aureole.

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