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What does feldspathic mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
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The lower member is dominated by a thick basal dolomite and passes transitionally upwards into the psammitic upper member, which is largely feldspathic schist and quartzite.
Compositionally, the turbidites are mostly feldspathic litharenites with trace amounts of serpentinite, anorthosite and mafic volcanic clasts.
Sienite and feldspar succeeded in our descent to the snow line, where we found a feldspathic granite.
Neither sample showed optical evidence for postformation alteration in the form of chloritized veins or sericitization of feldspathic minerals or micas.
It occurs in the various feldspars and feldspathic rocks, and in mica.
The MSU is modelled as being a southward plunging, lenticular body that runs parallel to, but above, the coarse grained feldspathic peridotite intrusion.

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