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- Xenolith - Wikipedia
To be considered a true xenolith, the included rock must be identifiably different from the rock in which it is enveloped; an included rock of similar type is called an autolith or a cognate inclusion
- Xenolith - Education
Most of the time, a xenolith is a rock embedded in magma while the magma was cooling Magma is the molten rock beneath Earth's crust that emerges as lava during a volcanic eruption
- What Are Xenoliths and How Are They Important | Geology Base
It means foreign rocks Why are they important? Geologists use them to understand the inaccessible mantle and deeper crust Also, some may contain precious minerals or gemstones Greenish peridotite xenolith in black basalt lava from Arizona, USA Photo credit: James St John, CC BY 2 0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Xenolith | Igneous Rocks, Magma Chambers Intrusions | Britannica
Xenoliths are usually reconstituted through the processes of contact metamorphism, in which heat and fluids cause mineralogic and chemical changes in the parent rock of the xenolith; a study of these changes can give information on the temperature and composition of the magmatic body
- ALEX STREKEISEN-Xenolith-
Xenoliths Xenolith is rock fragment within an intrusive igneous body that is unrelated to the igneous body itself
- Xenoliths: Origins, Types Geological Importance - Sandatlas
“Xenolith” means literally ‘foreign rock’, but some xenoliths are not entirely foreign to their hosts They may be genetically related e g gabbro xenoliths in basalt
- Xenolith - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Xenolith-bearing volcanics and kimberlites occur in many different tectonic settings, giving a wide lateral sampling of the continents Lower crustal xenoliths from arc volcanics are chiefly mafic in composition and sediments are rare to absent
- XENOLITH Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
xenolith noun xe· no· lith ˈze-nə-ˌlith ˈzē- : a fragment of a rock included in another rock xenolithic
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