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Illimani

NOUN
  1. a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high)

How To Use Illimani In A Sentence

  • Associated units are sillimanite-bearing aluminous metasediments, quartzites, and arnphibolites.
  • Sillimanite, which occurs both as fibrolite and as prismatic grains, grows across the L-S fabric in part defined by biotite, and is clearly post-kinematic with respect to the type - 1 tectonites.
  • The aluminium silicate minerals andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite are good examples of this phenomenon of polymorphism.
  • Growth of titanite took place during the metamorphic climax in rocks from the kyanite and sillimanite zones.
  • Later, shallower and hotter metamorphism produced widespread sillimanite grade gneisses, migmatites and in situ partial melting.
  • The envelope consists of garnet gneiss, migmatite, sillimanite gneiss, fibrolite schist, andalusite schist and quartzite, phyllite and unmetamorphosed Palaeozoic to Cretaceous sedimentary rocks.
  • Sericite is fine-grained muscovite formed by alteration of such minerals as feldspar, cordierite, and sillimanite.
  • Muscovite and aluminosilicates are almost entirely absent although, where present, the aluminosilicate is sillimanite.
  • Relative to one another, kyanite forms in a lower temperature/higher pressure environment; andalusite forms in a lower temperature/lower pressure environment, and sillimanite forms in a higher temperature/higher pressure environment. Kyanite
  • Kyanite and sillimanite may also be present but only as minor components.
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