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Sericite is fine-grained muscovite formed by alteration of such minerals as feldspar, cordierite, and sillimanite.
Flow tops were avoided as they are almost always riddled with amygdales and show signs of alteration.
The mineralogical and textural alteration in the country rocks resulting from this heating by igneous bodies is called contact metamorphism.
The restoration of the Stanley government in 1660 therefore caused as little friction and alteration as its temporary cessation had.
Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics.
The most distal alteration is volumetrically minor and involves alteration of olivine to antigorite and magnesite.
This change in the pattern of elasticities represents an alteration in the selection pressures on the life history.
The only alteration for decades has been to prevent the goalkeeper picking up a kicked back pass.
This alteration enhances the camera's ability to take high-end astrophotographic images.
The filibuster rule has of course been the subject of occasional but profoundly important alteration.
Orthoclase occurred as remnant phenocrysts in a groundmass of chloritic material resulting from alteration of iron-rich felsite cobbles.
Vitrinite reflectance data provide an estimate of maximum burial depth by optical assessment of the thermal alteration of coaly material.
The last major alteration was made soon afterwards when a clerestory was built above the nave arcades.
Sedimentation and hydrologic alteration, common symptoms of urban watersheds, are likely filling in or flushing higher quality substrata.
There are likely to be several distinct fat alteration syndromes occurring in a variety of combinations.
Palaeosol horizons are interbedded with these units, representing the pedogenic alteration of exposed floodplain sediments.
The fragments are angular and the feldspar fragments fresh, although there are considerable amounts of chloritic alteration products.
It likely exists as a hydrothermal alteration product of aluminous materials.
Once this gene alteration has taken place, the changed gene can then be passed on to succeeding generations.
Or a program text might be ruined by alteration of a critical subprogram that makes the program as a whole useless.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As the acrospire creeps along the surface of the seed, the farina within undergoes a remarkable alteration.
The only external alteration he had made had been the lowering of the Sills of the windows.
This alteration in the siting of the trenches demanded the construction of an enormous number of dug-outs.
In museums the alteration goes no further than corresponds to the minute quantity of sodium chloride contained in the object.
It may be noted also that hypersthene shows a tendency to magmatic alteration, although only rarely.
Some alteration in the present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this inconveniency.
While modern Iranian often retains the nexus with little or no alteration, modern Indo-Aryan prefers to simplify it.
It seems that we must rather admit an intermittence, an alteration between affirmation and negation.
This change of view in regard to the Being of Jahveh coincided with a no less marked alteration in the character of His prophets.
The Duke used to say he considered the alteration of kempt's original movement the turning-point of the battle.
That there is no actual disease or alteration in structure of the deep layers of the keratogenous apparatus.
This matter of tallage could certainly be treated as an alteration of services, and sent for trial to the Common Bench.
They are unaccompanied by any alteration in sensation, in the reflexes, or in the trophic functions.
She read in this singular alteration of his ways the undoubtable indication of an altered character.
The Masque was written at Rochester's request for his alteration of valentinian.
In other instances there is both alteration in the form of the writing and paragraphia, or the use of the wrong letters.
This is not a positive alteration, however, because very often the segment in the pinhole is as short as it can be with safety.
Other cases of mental deficiency may be due to an alteration in the pituitary gland.
In such cases, an autopsy shows an alteration of the pituitary gland, often due to malignant tumors.
A certain degree of porosity in the original rock is also known to favor the alteration.
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