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Nephelinite is a fine-grained or
aphanitic igneous rock made up
almost entirely of
nepheline and
clinopyroxene (variety augite). If
olivine is present...
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Mount Meru.
Mount Meru's
lavas are
alkaline in
character and
include nephelinite. Much of the mountain's
height was lost
about 7,800
years ago due to...
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intraplate hotspots.
Their silica content can
range from
ultramafic (
nephelinites,
basanites and tephrites) to
felsic (trachytes). They are more likely...
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intraplate hotspots.
Their silica content can
range from
ultramafic (
nephelinites,
basanites and tephrites) to
felsic (trachytes). They are more likely...
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feldspathoid classifies a rock as silica-undersaturated; an
example is
nephelinite.
Magmas are
further divided into
three series: The
tholeiitic series...
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igneous rock.
There is very
little co****r-grained
gabbro and diabase.
Nephelinite is
exposed on the
islands but is
extremely rare. The
majority of eruptions...
- euro for scale) Rounded, yellow,
weathered peridotite xenolith in a
nephelinite lava flow at Kaiserstuhl, SW
Germany Large xenolith of
Baltimore Gneiss...
- silica-undersaturated
plutonic rock of
nepheline and
alkali feldspar Nephelinite –
Igneous rock made up
almost entirely of
nepheline and clinopyroxene...
- east of the volcano. Most of the
volcanic cone is
formed by melilite,
nephelinite, and phonolite. Ol
Doinyo Lengai is the only
volcano on
Earth known to...
- (containing
nephelinite blocks), and
nephelinitic lava flows. Rare
xenoliths of
phonolite lava and
ijolite were
discovered in
nephelinite lavas, with...
