pyroxenite

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noun

A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.

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garnet olivine clinopyroxenite orthopyroxenite pyroxene pyroxenoid pyroxferroite pyroxmangite orthopyroxene pyrgom augite bronzitite nephelinite syenite pyreneite xenolite

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