different between olivine vs epidote

English

Etymology

From olive +? -in, later remodelled after -ine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l?vi?n/

Noun

olivine (countable and uncountable, plural olivines)

1. (mineralogy, geology) Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 51:

     The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.

Synonyms

• chrysolite

Derived terms

• olivinic (adjective)
• olivinitic

Translations

See also

• bluestone
• olivine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• violine

French

Noun

olivine f (plural olivines)

1. olivine

Derived terms

• olivinique

Further reading

• “olivine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

olivine f

1. plural of olivina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French épidote.

Noun

epidote (countable and uncountable, plural epidotes)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.
   • 1915, George Curtis Martin, Bertrand Leroy Johnson, Ulysses Sherman Grant, Bulletin 587: Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States Geological Survey, page 23,

     A little higher is an outcrop of epidote schist with quartz, carbonate, and magnetite.

   • 1990, Andrew P. Barth, Chapter 3: Mid-crustal emplacement of Mesozoic plutons, San Gabriel Mountains, California, and implications for the geologic history of the San Gabriel terrane, J. Lawford Anderson (editor), The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism, Memoir 174: The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism, The Geological Society of America, page 36,

     Available compositional data for magmatic epidotes (Naney, 1983; Zen and Hammarstrom, 1984; Barth, unpublished data) suggest no significant solid solution beyond the epidote-clinozoisite binary.

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Epidote”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “epidote”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• opetide