Leucocratic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Light in color, containing at least 90% felsic minerals.
"Occasionally the opinion is advanced that the formation of the leucocratic, granitic-granodioritic portions of the heterogeneous in-situ migmatites is due to a metasomatic process, i.e., to the addition of “emanations” from depth."
Example
More examples"Occasionally the opinion is advanced that the formation of the leucocratic, granitic-granodioritic portions of the heterogeneous in-situ migmatites is due to a metasomatic process, i.e., to the addition of “emanations” from depth."
Etymology
From leuco- + -cratic.
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