Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as alkaline.
  • Specifically applied to the minerals of igneous rocks (in the quantitative classification) or to magmas and rocks generally, when specially characterized by their alkali contents: in distinction from alkaline, which implies the chemical property of alkalinity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having the properties of an alkali. Opposite of acidic.

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  • adjective geology, of a rock Containing a relatively high proportion of alkali; alkaline.

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  • adjective relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7

Etymologies

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alkali +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • In addition to the reserves in already established environments, there remains another category, as yet unevaluated, of potential reserves of both thorium and uranium in minor accessory minerals of alkalic igneous rocks and carbonatites (intrusive limestones) which are widespread in western United States.

    Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels (historical) 2008

  • Recent petrological work has confirmed the alkalic chemistry of some of the intrusive rocks at Huajoto, which is very unusual for the Andes.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Detailed ground radiometrics completed by the Company has revealed the existence of a radiogenic anomaly approximately 4 x 4 kilometers in size that outlines an alkalic injection sill complex, with associated garnet skarns that are related to the REE concentrations.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • SHRIMP U-Pb dating of recurrent Cryogenian and Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician alkalic magmatism in central Idaho: Implications for Rodinian rift tectonics

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Concentrations of the REE's have been identified within phosphate minerals from the project such as carbonated monazite, dahllite, apatite and fluorapatite genetically associated with the alkalic sill complex.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Detailed ground radiometrics completed by the Company has revealed the existence of a radiogenic anomaly approximately 4 x 4 kilometers in size that outlines an alkalic injection sill complex, with associated garnet skarns that are related to the REE concentrations.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Recent petrological work has confirmed the alkalic chemistry of some of the intrusive rocks at Huajoto, which is very unusual for the Andes.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Carbonatite usually occur as small plugs within zoned alkalic intrusive complexes, or as intrusive bodies, but can form as dikes or veins in the host rocks.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Concentrations of the REE's have been identified within phosphate minerals from the project such as carbonated monazite, dahllite, apatite and fluorapatite genetically associated with the alkalic sill complex.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Carbonatite usually occur as small plugs within zoned alkalic intrusive complexes, or as intrusive bodies, but can form as dikes or veins in the host rocks.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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