单词 | syntexis |
释义 | syntexisn. Geology. The alteration of magma by the melting or assimilation of another rock. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [noun] > magmatism plutonism1879 piezo-crystallization1895 assimilation1903 palingenesis1907 syntexis1911 rheomorphism1937 magmatism1952 1911 F. Loewinson-Lessing in Geol. Mag. VIII. 295 When the re-melted portion of the crust is composed of different rocks, eruptive, or sedimentary,..the process is rather a ‘syntexis’, as I have called it, an assimilation which is followed by liquation and differentiation. 1932 F. F. Grout Petrogr. & Petrol. iii. 230 Syntexis has been appealed to in explaining how the more siliceous and the more alkalic rock clans can be derived from primary basaltic magma. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) X. 84/1 In some instances such endomorphic effects are sufficiently intensive to result in modification of the composition of the magma (syntexis). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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