Definition of Pyroxenites

1. pyroxenite [n] - See also: pyroxenite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxenites

pyrothonide
pyrotic
pyrotics
pyrotoxin
pyrotoxins
pyrotritartaric acid
pyrotungstic
pyrouric
pyrovalerone
pyrovanadic
pyroxanthin
pyroxene
pyroxenes
pyroxenic
pyroxenite
pyroxenites (current term)
pyroxenitic
pyroxenoid
pyroxenoids
pyroxferroite
pyroxferroites
pyroxmangite
pyroxyle
pyroxyles
pyroxylic
pyroxylin
pyroxyline
pyroxylins
pyrrexhia
pyrrhic

Literary usage of Pyroxenites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"ON THE pyroxenites OF THE GRENVILLE SERIES IN OTTAWA COUNTY, CANADA. ... The pyroxenites usually occur in parallel bands intercalated in the quartzites, ..."

2. A Report on the Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia by Oliver Baker Hopkins (1914)
"In Georgia a large part of the rocks included under the head of peridotites, pyroxenites and associated basic, magnesian rocks have been more or less ..."

3. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering and Soils by George Perkins Merrill (1897)
"ANALYSES OF FRESH AND DECOMPOSED DIORITE FROM ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA The ultra basic rocks, — peridotites and pyroxenites, — from the very nature of ..."

4. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"META-pyroxenites AND META-PERIDOTITES (Amphibolite, Serpentine and Soapstone).—For five-eighths of a mile from the northern limit of the ..."

5. Annual Report (new Series).: Volume I-XVI...1885-1904 by Geological Survey of Canada (1902)
"They consist essentially of augite and enstatite and form therefore a transition to pyroxenites in the sense of the petrographic nomenclature ..."

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