Sericite is a 8 letter English word.
You can make 205 anagrams from letters in sericite (ceeiirst).
From the German word Sericit, dating back to 1850-55. See seric-, -ite1
There is also a small amount of hematite, pyroxene and sericite.
There is some sericite present, also magnetite, resulting from the decomposition of the biotite.
A dark compact rock, in which calcite and sericite predominate.
Alunite is a potassium-aluminum sulphate, which differs from sericite in that sulphur takes the place of silicon.
Where sericite is dominant, the alteration is called sericitic alteration.
In igneous rock the ore-bearing solutions may have altered the wall rock to a dense mixture of quartz, sericite, and chlorite.