different between picotite vs lherzolite
picotite
English
Noun
picotite (countable and uncountable, plural picotites)
- (mineralogy) hercynite
Derived terms
- chrompicotite
- cobaltochrompicotite
picotite From the web:
lherzolite
English
Etymology
From Lherz in the Pyrenées +? -lite.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??z?l??t/
Noun
lherzolite (countable and uncountable, plural lherzolites)
- (mineralogy) A dark-green igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 60:
- The most important variety is called lherzolite: its list of constituent minerals includes a lot of olivine but also feldspar and pyroxene, and often small quantities of two other minerals: garnet and spinel.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 60:
Further reading
- “lherzolite”, in Mindat.org – Glossary?[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
lherzolite From the web:
- what does lherzolite mean
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