harzburgite

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Etymology[edit]

From Harzburg +‎ -ite.

Noun[edit]

harzburgite (usually uncountable, plural harzburgites)

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