Relating to or denoting a mineral deposit or formation produced at the same time as the enclosing or surrounding rock.
〔地质〕矿床同生的
these ores are of syngenetic origin
Example sentencesExamples
Setting quartz inclusions (at least the protogenetic and syngenetic ones) apart from your standard-issue nine-to-five mineral is the fact that they are stuck inside another growing mineral (quartz).
A syngenetic origin of sulphides was suggested by early workers, mainly based on the stratiform and stratabound occurrence of the sulphides in ironstone.
Paragenetic evidence indicates that the manganese oxides are pre-or syngenetic with respect to the barite.
Two terms that are still commonly encountered when discussing the classification of ore deposits are syngenetic and epigenetic.
Definition of syngenetic in US English:
syngenetic
adjectiveˌsinjəˈnedik
Geology
Relating to or denoting a mineral deposit or formation produced at the same time as the enclosing or surrounding rock.
〔地质〕矿床同生的
these ores are of syngenetic origin
Example sentencesExamples
Two terms that are still commonly encountered when discussing the classification of ore deposits are syngenetic and epigenetic.
Paragenetic evidence indicates that the manganese oxides are pre-or syngenetic with respect to the barite.
Setting quartz inclusions (at least the protogenetic and syngenetic ones) apart from your standard-issue nine-to-five mineral is the fact that they are stuck inside another growing mineral (quartz).
A syngenetic origin of sulphides was suggested by early workers, mainly based on the stratiform and stratabound occurrence of the sulphides in ironstone.