A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification...

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...

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...

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...

Olivine weathering to iddingsite within a mantle xenolith, demonstrating the principles of the Goldich dissolution series...

An ultramafic mantle xenolith with olivine and pyroxene (altering brown to iddingsite) in a matrix of mafic basalt scoria...

Mantle-peridotite xenolith from San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. The xenolith is dominated by green peridot olivine, together with...

surrounding rock as it explodes, bringing up unaltered xenoliths of peridotite to surface. These xenoliths provide valuable information to geologists about...

mantle by examining mantle xenoliths brought up in kimberlite, lamproite, and other volcanic pipes. The histories of these xenoliths have been investigated...

on Papakolea Beach, Hawaii Light green olivine crystals in peridotite xenoliths in basalt from Arizona Olivine basalt from the Moon, collected in 1971...