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英雲岩 (えいうんがん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

英えい雲うん岩がん

Meanings

1

noun

greisen

mineralogy

A technical term in mineralogy for a type of altered granite.

英えい雲うん岩がんは、花か崗こう岩がんが熱ねっ水すい変へん質しつを受うけてできた岩がん石せきです。
Greisen is a rock formed by hydrothermal alteration of granite.

Kanji

英England, English, hero
雲cloud
岩boulder, rock, cliff

Etymology

The term 英雲岩 is a Japanese translation of the English mineralogical term 'greisen'. The exact derivation of the kanji is uncertain; it is a technical coinage.