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amphibolites

amphibolites is the plural of amphibolite.

Meaning of amphibolite

Noun

amphibolite (countable and uncountable, plural amphibolites)

  1. Any of a class of metamorphic rocks composed mainly of amphibole with some quartz etc.
    • At that time, the Gondwana supercontinent was located at the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere, developed amphibolite metamorphism and formed the united crystalline basement at about 510 Ma.2020, Tianfeng Wan, The Tectonics and Metallogenesis of Asia, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113

Questions about amphibolites

What is amphibolites the plural of?
Amphibolites is the plural of amphibolite.

Words near amphibolites in the dictionary

  1. amphibolid
  2. amphibolids
  3. amphibolies
  4. amphiboliferous
  5. amphibolite
  6. amphibolites
  7. amphibolitic
  8. amphibolitization
  9. amphibolitize
  10. amphibolitized
  11. amphibolitizes

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