Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geophase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: geophase
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A point in the sequence of geochemical changes that occur as minerals are formed from cooling magma.

Example Sentences

"[…] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L."
"In the opinion of A.E. Fersman, amazonite freely crystallizes from melt in the relatively late geophases of the pegmatite process, but the beginning of its formation belongs to the earlier and high-temperature geophase—the rise of graphic granite."

Etymology

Coined by Alexander Fersman, geo- + phase

Word Breakdown

Prefix: geo

Inflected Forms

geophases (plural)

Questions

What does geophase mean?: A point in the sequence of geochemical changes that occur as minerals are formed from cooling magma.
Where does geophase come from?: Coined by Alexander Fersman, geo- + phase

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