Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Conversion into serpentine, an extremely common result in the course of the metamorphic changes which rockforming minerals have undergone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology, mineralogy conversion of mineral or rock into
serpentine .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word serpentinization.
Examples
-
The first involves a process called serpentinization, where water and carbon dioxide interact with particular minerals in a way that makes methane as a by-product.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
-
The first involves a process called serpentinization, where water and carbon dioxide interact with particular minerals in a way that makes methane as a by-product.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
-
Meyer notes that methane also can come from a purely non-biological process called serpentinization.
-
The mineral most subject to this serpentinization process is called olivine—also known in its gemstone form as peridot—and it is common on Mars.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
-
The mineral most subject to this serpentinization process is called olivine—also known in its gemstone form as peridot—and it is common on Mars.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
-
Meyer notes that methane also can come from a purely non-biological process called serpentinization.
-
The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation.
-
Beneath ocean basins and adjacent to spreading centers, oceanic Serpentosphere is continuously generated by the interactions of deep circulating marine composition water – partly in super-critical state –with harzburgitic peridotite in a process referred to as serpentinization.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
-
Check out my website at www.martinhovland.com, and also the paper in EOS, of 2005 where we describe how supercritical water actually originating from serpentinization not only brings salt to the surface, but also molten asphalt.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
-
The volume expansion provides an excellent mechanism to expel and propel fluid products – including hydrocarbons – from the area of serpentinization to seep sites at the crust hydrosphere/atmosphere interface.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
mahalie commented on the word serpentinization
"Water venting at Lost City is generally 200 F. The fluids do not get as hot as the black smokers because the water is not heated by magma but rather by heat released during serpentinization, a chemical reaction between seawater and mantle rock." - ScienceDaily.com article retrieved 2008/02/01.
February 2, 2008