pyroxenite

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Meaning

1. noun A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.

Similar words

garnet olivine clinopyroxenite orthopyroxenite pyroxene pyroxenoid pyroxferroite pyroxmangite orthopyroxene pyrgom

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and xenoliths is layers or in veins of with

Word family

pyroxenites pyroxenitic