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A xenolith is a rock fragment embedded in, and distinct in texture and composition from, a surrounding mass of igneous rock. Xenoliths form when rising magma forces its way through channels and cracks, tearing off fragments of their walls and...
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A xenolith (Greek: 'foreign rock') is a rock fragment which becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and hardening. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock during magma...


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Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
Limestone Xenoliths in Hills Pond Lamproite, Woodson County, Kansas.
04/01/2001: 1,312 words, approx. 4 pages
INTRODUCTION The Hills Pond lamproite is part of a sill complex intruded into the northern portion of the Silver City Dome (Fig. 1). This intrusion is related closely in age, composition, and tectonic setting to a nearby intrusion at Rose Dome (Berendsen and...
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Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science
Clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and olivine chemistries in ultramafic to mafic xenoliths.(Collegiate Communications--Undergraduate)
04/01/2005: 593 words, approx. 2 pages
Xenoliths are rock fragments or inclusions that are torn from the sides of lava tubes and caught up in magma as it moves through Earth. Xenoliths provide samples of the deep parts of the lower crust and upper mantle. We analyzed several xenoliths from...
 


 

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