xenolith in English

noun
1
a piece of rock within an igneous rock that is not derived from the original magma but has been introduced from elsewhere, especially the surrounding country rock.
However, rare xenoliths of sedimentary rocks occur in the granite.

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1. Andesinite is the commonest xenolith type, together with glomeroporphyritic patches of xenocrystic plagioclase

2. REE in fluid ? melt inclusions of mantle xenolith from Changbaishan are measured directly by ICP? MS.

3. The xenolith is situated 300 feet from the contact with the Iate Mesozoic rocks that the Bathylith here intrudes

4. Liu Ruoxin and Fan Qicheng. 19 Major element and rare element of ultra-marie xenolith in eastern China.

5. Complex granulite facies xenolith types and distinct formation conditions indicate that the lower crust beneath Nushan was constructed by multi-periodic magmatism in different tectonic settings.

6. The discovery of the xenolith is of important implication for us to recognize the deep subduction direction and the scale of the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure(UHP) metamorphic belt.

7. According to the statistics of 2615 enclaves in 53 enclave observation spots, enclaves in Fangshan granodiorite are divided into two categories, xenolith enclave and microgranular enclave.

8. The fractal structure factors (FSF ) of spinel from ultramafic xenolith, harzburgite, dunite and chromite have been calculated using a new method presented by Shen (19.

9. Hence, for the minerals to be analyzed in some rocks, when there are all sorts of genesis with xenolith, magma, mantle and so on in them, the age of a certain single event can be respectively got.

10. Bandaite agglomerate matrix (weathered surface) Montserrat, West Indies Path from Blake's to Trant's, Centre Hills, Montserrat (1936) M : 77 1937 MR 16438: Porous glassy hornblendic xenolith in hornblende pyroxene Bandaite Montserrat, West Indies Field between Galway's and White River Ghaut, Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat (1936)