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kelyphite

kelyphite noun: a substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.

Noun

kelyphite (plural kelyphites)

  1. A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
    • Relationships shown in Fig. 3, B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host alnöite.2000 May 19, Kenneth D. Collerson with et al., “Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific”, in Science, volume 288, number 5469, →DOI, →ISSN...
    • Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02

Forms of kelyphite

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Questions about kelyphite

What does kelyphite mean?
Kelyphite means a substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
What part of speech is kelyphite?
Kelyphite is a noun.
What is the plural of kelyphite?
The plural of kelyphite is kelyphites.

Words near kelyphite in the dictionary

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  8. KEM
  9. Kemal
  10. Kemalism
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