troctolite

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noun

A rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase

OriginGerman Troktolit →
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Meanings

nountroctolite (usually uncountable, plural troctolites)

plural troctolites

  1. uncountableusuallygeographyA rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase

    Here, we report a magnetic study of an unshocked ancient rock with a well-constrained thermal history, troctolite 76535.

    2009 January 16, Ian Garrick-Bethell et al., “Early Lunar Magnetism”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912, →DOI

Origin

  1. GermanTroktolit
  2. Englishtroctolite

From German Troktolit.

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Chicago

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