polymict
nounEtymology Coined by Finnish geologist Walter Wahl in 1952.
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A breccia containing multiple types of rock.
polymict
adjEtymology Coined by Finnish geologist Walter Wahl in 1952.
- It is pointed out that the breccias among stony meteorites are mainly of two kinds : (a) breccias in which the enclosed fragments are of the same material as the surrounding principal mass of the stone: it is proposed to call this kind of breccias “monomict breccias,” and (b) breccias in which the enclosed fragments are of a foreign material as compared with the surrounding principal mass of the stone: it is proposed to call these breccias “polymict breccias.”1952, Walter Wahl, “The brecciated stony meteorites and meteorites containing foreign fragments”, in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, pages 91–117:
- The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies.1983, Jeremy S. Delaney et al., “The Nomenclature of Polymict Basaltic Achondrites”, in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, volume 18, number 2, →DOI:
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