矽卡岩一词,系由Skarn(Скарн)音译而来。最早见于北欧瑞典等国,当时矿工在采掘铁矿时,将非铁矿石之脉石统称之为矽卡岩。尔后,地质学家们逐渐赋于矽卡岩以一定的地质意义。初时,矽卡岩几乎是“交代岩”的同义语,以后扩充为指“接触交 The term skarn, transliterated by Skarn (Скарн). The earliest seen in northern Europe and Sweden and other countries, when miners in the mining of iron ore, non-iron ore gangue collectively referred to as skarn. Later, geologists gradually assigned skarn to some geological significance. At first, skarn is almost synonymous with “rock”, later expanded to refer to "contact