Definition of Pyroxenitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxenitic

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

Literary usage of Pyroxenitic

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Even neglecting the small grain size, a problem exists of mobilizing a high-temperature melt of pyroxenitic composition to the lunar surface without its ..."

2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Other facies are pyroxenitic or picritic. There are also dikes of nephelite-syenite and augite-syenite. At Lausitz there are dikes and flows of ..."

3. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"... that the dolerite sills cutting Permian strata of Natal and Zulu- land have split into anorthositic and pyroxenitic phases.i Very little systematic work ..."

4. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"... rather than pyroxenitic, in some of the gneisses and schists which have been altered under very deep-seated conditions the pyroxenes are present instead ..."

5. Mineral Resources of the United States by Geological Survey (U.S.), United States Bureau of Mines (1919)
"... sources and brings out the fact that platinum ore from pyroxenitic centers is generally richer in platinum, poorer in osmium, relatively lower in iron, ..."

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