Meanings
nounlherzolite (countable and uncountable, plural lherzolites)
plural lherzolites
- countableuncountablechemistryA dark-green igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite.
The most important variety is called lherzolite: its list of constituent minerals includes a lot of olivine but also feldspar and pyroxene, and often small quantities of two other minerals: garnet and spinel.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 60
Origin
From Lherz in the Pyrenées + -lite.
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