Dictionary

iron-rich en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Containing high levels of iron.
   • Chamosite, an iron-rich chlorite, is an important constituent of some sedimentary iron ores. 1978, Alan Robert Woolley, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Mineral Kingdom, page 171:
   • As it seems that the dead bivalves are generally present below the recent iron-rich sediment, it is believed that during the last 20 years approximately, human intervention around the fjord has worsened the life conditions of some of the benthonic organisms. 1981, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (contributor), Sediment and Pollution Interchange in Shallow Seas, Proceedings from ICES Workshop Held in Texel, 24-26, September 1979, page 77:
   • Sodium metasomatism is considered by Kuman (1959) to have been responsible for the formation of the magnesioriebeckite in some of the iron-rich sediments of the Krivoy Rog basin. 1963, William Alexander Deer, Rock-forming Minerals: Chain silicates, page 348:

Forms