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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name given by von Lasaulx (1875) to a variety of gabbro composed of lime-soda feldspar and olivin, with a little diallage. Bonney has applied the name especially to the more or less serpentinized forms. Compare forellenstein.

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  • noun geology A rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase

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From German Troktolit

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