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What does epidote mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.
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The Bakfjord Granite contains quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, plagioclase, epidote, allanite, muscovite and occasional garnet.
The sample contains the mineral assemblage garnet, staurolite, biotite and rare epidote.
He reported that material previously said to be piemontite was actually a manganan epidote.
Some of the material contained micaceous masses of specular hematite associated with quartz, epidote, and numerous veinlets of calcite.
All three are dominated by unaltered muscovite, quartz, K-feldspar and albite, with minor epidote.
Most of us were introduced to epidote as a massive or granular mineral characterized by its pistachio-green color.

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