Rare porphyritic volcanic rock Boninite – Ultramafic extrusive rock high in both magnesium and silica Carbonatite – Igneous rock with more than 50% carbonate... 14 KB (2,211 words) - 23:33, 16 April 2024 |
ultramafic rock to serpentine group minerals. Contact metamorphism takes place when magma is injected into the surrounding solid rock (country rock)... 37 KB (4,414 words) - 09:37, 11 March 2024 |
Formation in Wyoming and, the following year, as inclusions in the ultramafic rock kimberlite from a diamond mine in Yakutia in the Russian Far East.... 16 KB (1,512 words) - 14:02, 1 April 2024 |
ferromagnesian minerals, such as olivine and pyroxene, in mafic and ultramafic rock to produce serpentinite. Minerals formed by serpentinization include... 30 KB (3,139 words) - 20:16, 5 January 2024 |
alkali oxides (K2O plus Na2O). These place the rock in one of the fields of the TAS diagram. Ultramafic rock and carbonatites have their own specialized... 22 KB (2,430 words) - 23:08, 6 March 2024 |
Serpentine soil (section Parent rock) Serpentine soil is an uncommon soil type produced by weathered ultramafic rock such as peridotite and its metamorphic derivatives such as serpentinite... 21 KB (2,374 words) - 12:48, 15 April 2024 |
Serpentinite (redirect from Serpentine rock) metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.... 25 KB (2,572 words) - 12:29, 15 April 2024 |
highland warm-summer mediterranean climate. Mount Olympus is formed of ultramafic rock, dominantly serpentinized harzburgite which is part of the Troodos... 4 KB (370 words) - 05:10, 24 August 2023 |
Dunite (category Ultramafic rocks) be confused with the mineral olivenite), is an intrusive igneous rock of ultramafic composition and with phaneritic (coarse-grained) texture. The mineral... 6 KB (717 words) - 01:30, 26 July 2023 |
Enhanced weathering (redirect from Enhanced rock weathering) enhanced weathering technique is in-situ carbonation of silicates. Ultramafic rock, for example, has the potential to store from hundreds to thousands... 29 KB (2,989 words) - 16:53, 15 January 2024 |
Layered intrusion (redirect from Ultramafic intrusion) Ni-Cu-PGE deposits can occur within the country rock spatially associated with the layered intrusion. Mafic-ultramafic layered intrusions occur at all levels within... 21 KB (2,462 words) - 03:19, 15 December 2023 |
Talc carbonates are a suite of rock and mineral compositions found in metamorphosed ultramafic rocks. The term refers to the two most common end-member... 5 KB (618 words) - 11:12, 14 March 2023 |
melting temperature (solidus) of those rocks. In subduction zones, the ultramafic rock of the upper mantle is melted by the addition of volatiles from the... 2 KB (287 words) - 09:09, 24 April 2023 |
Chile Ridge (section Taitao Ophiolite (pillow lava, sheeted dikes, gabbro, ultramafic rocks in Late-Miocene)) of igneous rocks, represented by the Taitao ophiolites, which is an ultramafic rock composed of olivine and pyroxene, usually found in oceanic plates.... 41 KB (4,011 words) - 02:09, 11 April 2024 |
Peridotite (category Ultramafic rocks) coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene. Peridotite is ultramafic, as the rock contains less than 45%... 32 KB (3,793 words) - 16:02, 4 April 2024 |
sedimentary rock is termed its provenance. Magmatic protoliths can be further divided into three categories: ultramafic rock, mafic rock, and quartzo-feldspathic... 2 KB (229 words) - 08:47, 31 December 2023 |
Tuff (redirect from Ultramafic tuff) breccias grade into root zones of dikes made of unfragmented rock. At the surface, ultramafic tuffs may occur in maar deposits. Because kimberlites are the... 41 KB (4,757 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2024 |
they are to other Araucaria. Much of New Caledonia is composed of ultramafic rock with serpentine soils, with low levels of nutrients, but high levels... 27 KB (1,800 words) - 15:27, 3 April 2024 |
Piper diagram, used in hydrochemistry UIGS Classification diagram for Ultramafic rock USDA Soil texture diagram by particle sizes Apparent molar property... 13 KB (1,681 words) - 14:00, 22 April 2024 |
Wehrlite (category Ultramafic rocks) Wehrlite is an ultramafic and ultrabasic rock that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene. It is a subdivision of the peridotites. The nomenclature... 2 KB (161 words) - 19:50, 27 July 2023 |