Chlorite-schist is a green slaty rock, in which chlorite is abundant in foliated plates, usually blended with minute grains of quartz, or sometimes with felspar or mica.
It is seldom found in the darker coloured rocks, or in limestone country, but it sometimes occurs in gneiss, mica schist, and chlorite schist.
The beautiful argillaceous chlorite sandstone at the rapids of the Canadian, has been already described, and similar beds are not uncommon in many places in the vicinity of extensive depositions of coal.
Where chlorite is important, it is sometimes called chloritic or "propylitic" alteration.
Black mica (biotite) and chlorite minerals, which are soft and flexible but not elastic and are found extensively developed in certain schists, have been used to a limited extent for the same purposes.
Magnesia is never absent, though its amount may be less than 1%; it is usually contained in minerals of the chlorite group, but partly also in dolomite.
The rocks were all of chlorite slate, which is not usual at this elevation; the strike was north-west, and dip north-east.
Ascending, we passed the village of Kameti on a spur, on the face of which were strewed some enormous detached blocks of white and pink stratified quartz: the rocks in situ were all chlorite schist.
Chlorite is also an important constituent of many schistose rocks and phyllites, and of chlorite-schist it is the only essential constituent.
On adding a caustic alkali solution to one of chlorine peroxide, a mixture of a chlorite and a chlorate is obtained.
A low ridge of quartz rock extends from the Goobang to this peak the base of which consists of chlorite slate, and its summit of squarish pebbles of quartz, with the angles rounded, associated with fragments of chlorite slate.
The first step in the change was the cracking of the quartz and feldspar crystals and development of muscovite and chlorite in the cracks.
The face of the hill was very stony, and I found, on examination, that a great change had taken place in the rock-formation, the granite ranges having given place to chlorite schist.
Unless the powder be fresh made, a portion of chlorite is always converted into chloride of calcium.
Their olivine tends to become serpentinized; their augite changes to chlorite and uralite; their felspars are clouded by formation of zeolites, calcite, sericite and epidote.
A small portion of the hornblende is still characteristic, but the greater portion appears in various stages of decomposition; the alteration products being chlorite and epidote.
The products of alteration are chloriteand epidote.
The country, in fact, altogether changed: quartz had disappeared, and chlorite had taken its place.
We saw, for the first time, pure greenish-yellow chlorite outcropping from the granite.
It is of a greyish-green quartzose chlorite schist, from which the enterprising Father had endeavored, with a perseverance worthy of better success, to procure lime by burning.
On some of them the coal-beds form part of the cliffs along the shore; on others, copper is found in a chlorite and talcose slate.
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