Antigorite
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A variety of serpentine, of a green color and a thin lamellar structure, found in the Antigorio valley in Piedmont.
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noun.
A brownish-green variety of
serpentine
.
Word Usage
"When ocean Serpentosphere is subducted beneath continental or oceanic crust areas, it converts to antigorite-dominated serpentinite rock generally coincident with greenschist facies metamorphism."
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
baltimorite
picrolite