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skarn noun. [sk¨»:n] Also scarn. E20.
[Swedish = dung, filth from Old Norse.]
Petrography. Orig., silicate gangue of certain Archaean iron ore or sulphide deposits. Now, any lime-bearing siliceous rock produced by contact metamorphism of limestone or dolomite with the introduction of new elements.