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Definition of Pyroxenite
1. n. A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.
Definition of Pyroxenite
1. Noun. (geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende. ¹
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Definition of Pyroxenite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxenite
Literary usage of Pyroxenite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"CORUNDUM IN pyroxenite. At many of the corundum-bearing peridotite localities in
Macon, Jackson, and Transylvania counties, a pyroxenite composed of ..."
2. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"pyroxenite. This type of rock, into which the gabbro readily passes by a ...
The pyroxenite dikes south of Conowingo show alteration to fibrous amphibole. ..."
3. Geology of the Serpentine Belt Coleraine Sheet, Thetford-Black Lake Mining by John Knox Knox (1918)
"These masses are surrounded by a network of small pyroxenite dikes. The brecciated
zone is from 30 to 40 feet wide, for although stringers of pyroxenite cut ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1896)
"On the brow of the hill above pit number 11 the pyroxenite is cut by a dike of
syenite, ... Fragments of the pyroxenite are inclosed in the syenite, ..."
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