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Definition of Dunites
1. dunite [n] - See also: dunite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunites
Literary usage of Dunites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"... (e) dunites with partially serpentinized olivine and chromic iron. The dyke
or vein rocks are : (a) dunites, often more completely serpentinized; ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"... also (6) as the product of metamorphism of certain sedimentary rocks containing
magnesia and silica, as in impure dolomites. In the dunites and ..."
3. Rocks and Rock Minerals: A Manual of the Elements of Petrology Without the by Louis Valentine Pirsson (1913)
"The dunites, which are practically composed of the one mineral olivine, ...
dunites occur in masses intrusive in the gneisses of western North and South ..."
4. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"The dunites and anorthosites are the most important rocks of this ... The olivine,
which is the essential mineral of the dunites, is an isomorphous mixture ..."
5. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1904)
"First was the peridotite group, including dunites and various other types in
which augite, ... In the banded dunites there are narrow seams of almost pure ..."
6. British Petrography: With Special Reference to the Igneous Rocks by Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1888)
"In the typical peridotites—the dunites, ... The rocks which have been so frequently
referred to as the typical peridotites, the dunites, ..."
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