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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 ...
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