harzburgite
English
Etymology
From Harzburg + -ite.
Noun
harzburgite (usually uncountable, plural harzburgites)
- 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, 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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