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Pyroxenites that
occur as
xenoliths in
basalt and in
kimberlite have been
interpreted as
fragments of such layers.
Although some
mantle pyroxenites contain...
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Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain m****if" of
height 1,519 m. Its
constitution is
pyroxenites and
dunites of
lower and
middle Paleozoic era. The
slopes are covered...
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Layers of spinel-lherzolites with
anhydrous Al-diopside
pyroxenites and
hydrous Cr-diopside
pyroxenites can be
found on the island.[citation needed] Pliny...
- crystallized. The
ultramafic intrusives include the dunites,
peridotites and
pyroxenites.
Other rare
varieties include troctolite which has a
greater percentage...
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range of
exotic inclusions:
gabbro from Ehrsberg,
serpentinites and
pyroxenites near Todtmoos,
norite near Horbach),
which are
possibly the remnants...
- are also
found in
pentlandite extracted from Sudbury, Ontario, and in
pyroxenite deposits in
South Africa. Ruthenium, a
polyvalent hard
white metal, is...
- Mg-Al-spinel and Ca-Tschermak-rich
clinopyroxene in corundum-bearing
mantle pyroxenites. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC
approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical...
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crystals are very brittle. It was
first described in 1965 in the
Afrikanda pyroxenite m****if, a
formation on Russia's Kola
Peninsula and was
named for Nikolai...
- A
sample of
pyroxenite (meteorite ALH84001 from Mars), a rock
consisting mostly of
pyroxene minerals...
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contains harzburgite and dunite, as well as
layers of
spinel pyroxenite,
garnet pyroxenite, and hornblendite. The
layers represent partial melts extracted...
