harzburgite

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noun

An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.

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Meanings

nounharzburgite (usually uncountable, plural harzburgites)

plural harzburgites

  1. uncountableusuallyAn ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.

    The two rutiles occur in veins in harzburgite xenoliths carried in volcanoes of the eastern African Rift: Labait and Pello Hill.

    2000 January 14, Roberta L. Rudnick et al., “Rutile-Bearing Refractory Eclogites: Missing Link Between Continents and Depleted Mantle”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 278–281

Origin

From Harzburg + -ite.

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