Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coarse-grained greenish rock consisting primarily of garnet and sodic pyroxene, and often including quartz, kyanite, and rutile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by Haüy to a rock consisting of a crystalline-granular aggregate of omphacite (a granular, grass-green variety of pyroxene) with red garnet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A coarse-grained
metamorphic rock , a mixture ofpyroxene ,quartz , andfeldspar withinclusions of redgarnet .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It could have been up at eclogite, but not at NOAA.
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All three lithologies have abundant mantle xenoliths (eclogite, garnet lherzolite and garnet harzburgite) up to 20 cm in size and abundant mantle-derived garnets.
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Diamond - macrodiamonds and microdiamonds Ruby, sapphire, jadeite, eclogite, blueschist Emerald, red beryl Benitoite, neptunite & other gemstones
Recently Uploaded Slideshows davisonandassociates@slideshare.net(davisonandasso 2009
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Previous studies mainly demonstrated the timing of the first surface exposure of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Dabie Shan based on the discovery of eclogite pebbles, SHRIMP dating of zircons within gravels, etc.
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It’s the line reading the eclogite files which are in a D format.
Juckes and the Pea under the Thimble (#1) « Climate Audit 2006
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My guess is that it’s probably been up at eclogite for a while; but then it’s odd that it wasn’t archived at NOAA, which otherwise is a copy of eclogite.
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