Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of peridotite containing both clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene, with olivine being the most abundant mineral.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline aggregate of olivin, enstatite, and diallage, with some picotite: a rock occurring about Lake Lherz and in the adjacent regions in the French Pyrenees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A dark-green
igneous rock consisting largely ofchrysolite , withpyroxene and picotite.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The signal buried in the Galileo data indicated that it came from a type of rock similar to lherzolite - a coarse-grained, relatively loosely compressed rock - within Io, and quite a lot of it.
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On Earth, lherzolite is never found below certain depths since the pressure would cause it to convert to a different, denser type of rock.
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Tests have shown that the signatures detected by Galileo are consistent with a rock like lherzolite, an igneous rock rich in silicates of magnesium and iron.
BBC News - Home 2011
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All three lithologies have abundant mantle xenoliths (eclogite, garnet lherzolite and garnet harzburgite) up to 20 cm in size and abundant mantle-derived garnets.
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