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- Wehrlite is an ultramafic and ultrabasic rock that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene. It is a subdivision of the peridotites. The nomenclature...
- thick layers in layered intrusions, ****ociated with ****ulate layers of wehrlite, olivine pyroxenite, harzburgite, and even chromitite (a ****ulate rock...
- rock – A type of pyroxenite, composed of clinoproxene and orthopyroxene Wehrlite – Ultramafic rock - An ultramafic plutonic or ****ulate rock, a type of...
- Tellurobi****hite, or tellurbi****h, is a telluride mineral: bi****h telluride (Bi2Te3). It crystallizes in the trigonal system. There are natural cleavage...
- mantle lithosphere underneath continental cratons. Wehrlite: less than 5% orthopyroxene Wehrlite makes up part of the transition zone between the peridotite...
- Gautier–Wehrlé, a former French manufacturer of vehicles Wehrli, a surname Wehrlite, an ultramafic rock Werle, a fiefdom in the Holy Roman Empire Werley, Wisconsin...
- harzburgite) garnet inclusions have less CaO. Eclogite and peridotite are the two main parental mantle rocks and wehrlite and websterite are minor types....
- Trachybasalt Hawaiite Trachyte Troctolite Trondhjemite Tuff Websterite Wehrlite Sedimentary rock Argillite Arkose Banded iron formation Breccia Calcarenite...
- distinctive pale green color in which the pyroxene forms black flecks. Wehrlite is occasionally found here as well. Deep crustal rocks include a variety...
- erupted rocks also contain xenoliths such as lherzolite, pyroxenite and wehrlite. The magmas erupted in the Big Pine volcanic field were generated by melting...