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MALACOLITE | A variety of pyroxene. | |
PYROXENIC | Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene. | |
PYROXENITE | A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene. | |
PYRGOM | A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite. | |
URALITIZATION | The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism. | |
COCCOLITE | A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color. | |
SALITE | A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color. | |
MUSSITE | A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside. | |
DIOPSIDE | A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite. | |
FASSAITE | A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol. | |
JEFFERSONITE | A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc. | |
DIALLAGE | A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks. | |
URALITE | Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks. | |
LHERZOLITE | An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium). | |
ANDESITE | An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. | |
APHANITE | A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains. | |
BRONZITE | A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family. | |
RENSSELAERITE | A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles. | |
PERIDOTITE | An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine. | |
HYPERSTHENE | An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface. | |
BABINGTONITE | A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime. | |
DOLERITE | A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt. | |
AUGITE | A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene. | |
OPHITE | A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance. | |
ENSTATITE | A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate ... |