A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification...
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and is the likely source rock for basaltic magma. It is found as rare xenoliths in basalt, such as those of Kilbourne Hole in southern New Mexico, US...
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Kilbourne Hole (section Xenoliths)
2 km) south. Kilbourne Hole is notable for the large number of mantle xenoliths (solid fragments of mantle rock) that were carried to the surface by the...
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List of Edens Zero characters (section Xenolith)
Universe Zero, Müller steals Xenolith's powers and body to create a replica of him for the Oración Seis Galáctica, forcing Xenolith to inhabit the body of a...
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Olivine weathering to iddingsite within a mantle xenolith, demonstrating the principles of the Goldich dissolution series...
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An ultramafic mantle xenolith with olivine and pyroxene (altering brown to iddingsite) in a matrix of mafic basalt scoria...
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Mantle-peridotite xenolith from San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. The xenolith is dominated by green peridot olivine, together with...
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surrounding rock as it explodes, bringing up unaltered xenoliths of peridotite to surface. These xenoliths provide valuable information to geologists about...
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Lithosphere (section Mantle xenoliths)
mantle by examining mantle xenoliths brought up in kimberlite, lamproite, and other volcanic pipes. The histories of these xenoliths have been investigated...
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on Papakolea Beach, Hawaii Light green olivine crystals in peridotite xenoliths in basalt from Arizona Olivine basalt from the Moon, collected in 1971...
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