of other older cumulates of different composition and colour, typically giving the cumulate rock a layered or banded appearance. Cumulate rocks are the...
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Igneous rock (igneous from Latin igneus 'fiery'), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic...
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ultrabasic rock – A type of pyroxenite, composed of clinoproxene and orthopyroxene Wehrlite – Ultramafic rock - An ultramafic plutonic or cumulate rock, a type...
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layered ultramafic intrusions where differentiated rock types often occur in layers. Such cumulate rock types do not represent the chemistry of the magma...
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of wehrlite, olivine pyroxenite, harzburgite, and even chromitite (a cumulate rock consisting largely of chromite). Small layered intrusions may be of...
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plutonic igneous rock composed primarily of hornblende amphibole is called a hornblendite, which is usually a crystal cumulate rock. Igneous rocks with...
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proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical, pencil-sized, titanium tubes and...
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Magma (redirect from Magma rock)
contradicted by zircon data, which suggests leucosomes are a residue (a cumulate rock) left by extraction of a primary magma. When it is impossible to find...
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crystallization is important in the formation of sedimentary evaporite rocks. Cumulate rock – Igneous rocks formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma...
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Igneous differentiation (section Cumulate rocks)
are known as cumulate rocks, and those parts are the first which crystallize out of the magma. Identifying whether a rock is a cumulate or not is crucial...
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mineralisation – Fe-Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposit Ultramafic rock – Type of igneous and meta-igneous rock Cumulate rock – Igneous rocks formed by the accumulation of...
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in the name of the SNC group of meteorites. Chassigny is an olivine cumulate rock (dunite). It consists almost entirely of olivine with intercumulus pyroxene...
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doubtful value because a cumulate rock does not represent the melt from which it was extracted. However, if the groundmass of a cumulate can be analysed, it...
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Chromitite (category Rock stubs)
Chromitite is an igneous cumulate rock composed mostly of the mineral chromite. It is found in layered intrusions such as the Bushveld Igneous Complex...
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During cooling, crystals will form from the melt. Thus, the crystal/melt ratio increases, generating a magma, a crystal-mush, and finally a cumulate rock....
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hyaloclastite, sheeted dykes, gabbro, plagiogranite and ultramafic cumulate rock. Mantle rocks exposed in the ophiolite are the peridotite varieties...
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occur with crystal accumulation, forming pseudo-sedimentary structures. Cumulate rock Igneous differentiation Morris, Christopher Gilbert (1992), Academic...
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Igneous intrusion (section Cumulates)
The vast Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa includes cumulate layers of the rare rock type, chromitite, composed of 90% chromite, Plutonism – Geological...
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slowly cools and crystallizes over time. Petrology Igneous petrology Cumulate rock "Department of Earth Sciences » Experimental Petrology". Nandedkar,...
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crust and erupts on the surface. The erupted materials consist of molten rock (lava), hot fragmental debris (tephra or ash), and gases. Volcanism is a...
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in the highlands, and is inferred to represent plagioclase flotation cumulates of the lunar magma ocean, with interstitial mafic phases formed from trapped...
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Geologists have described it as a coarse-grained olivine-plagioclase cumulate with a granular polygonal texture. Olivine and plagioclase are of about...
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Cross-bedding Cross-stratification; also trough-cross stratification. Cumulate; see also layered intrusion Decussate Devitirification; devitrified Dendritic...
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Foliation (geology) (redirect from Foliated rock)
rotation in the groundmass. Igneous rocks can become foliated by alignment of cumulate crystals during convection in large magma chambers, especially ultramafic...
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layers of 4 Vesta's crust, and are a transition group towards the cumulate eucrites. Cumulate eucrites are rare types with oriented crystals, thought to have...
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Avant-prog (redirect from Avant-garde progressive rock)
cumulated on record labels such as Cuneiform (United States), Recommended (later ReR Megacorp, England) and Rec Rec (Switzerland). Experimental rock Magma...
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Porphyry (geology) (redirect from Porphyry (rock))
these phenocrysts usually settle out of solution, eventually creating cumulates; however if the partially crystallized magma is then erupted to the surface...
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is interpreted as depleted mantle rock, from which basaltic magma has been extracted. It also forms as a cumulate in Type I layered intrusions, forming...
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Porphyritic (redirect from Porphyritic rock)
remaining melt, they usually settle out of solution, eventually creating cumulates. However, when this is interrupted by sudden eruption of the melt as lava...
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the lower oceanic crust, composed of troctolite, gabbro and ultramafic cumulates. The crust overlies the rigid uppermost layer of the mantle. The crust...
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