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harzburgites

harzburgites is the plural of harzburgite.

Meaning of harzburgite

Noun

harzburgite (usually uncountable, plural harzburgites)

  1. (usually) An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.
    • The two rutiles occur in veins in harzburgite xenoliths carried in volcanoes of the eastern African Rift: Labait and Pello Hill.2000 January 14, Roberta L. Rudnick et al., “Rutile-Bearing Refractory Eclogites: Missing Link Between Continents and Depleted Mantle”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 278–281

Questions about harzburgites

What is harzburgites the plural of?
Harzburgites is the plural of harzburgite.

Words near harzburgites in the dictionary

  1. Harworth Bircotes
  2. Haryana
  3. Haryanvi
  4. Harz
  5. harzburgite
  6. harzburgites
  7. harzburgitic
  8. harzialactone
  9. harzialactones
  10. has
  11. has a bad time of it

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