serpentinization
- a word derived from serpentinize.
Example Sentences
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In a 2014 paper, Sherwood Lollar and colleagues considered the makeup of Earth’s cratons and found that serpentinization should produce as much as 80% of Earth’s hydrogen.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 15, 2023
It’s covered by the ancient Gawler Craton, and its iron and uranium mines point to the source rocks needed for both serpentinization and radiolysis.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 15, 2023
Understanding serpentinization at Lost City has wider scientific implications.
From Nature ● Nov. 6, 2018
The gradient of temperature can reach more than 200 °C at the site of the serpentinization reaction4.
From Nature ● Nov. 6, 2018
The blue ground of S. Africa may be 163 the result of the serpentinization of several such rocks, and although now both brecciated and serpentinized some of these may have been the original matrix.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
