eclogite
[ek-luh-jahyt]
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noun
a rock consisting of a granular aggregate of green pyroxene and red garnet, often containing kyanite, silvery mica, quartz, and pyrite.
Origin of eclogite
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Eclogite, ek′loj-īt, n. a crystalline rock, composed of smaragdite and red garnet.
Omphacite, om′fa-sīt, n. a grass-green granular variety of pyroxene, one of the constituents of eclogite.
In the Newlands boulder the diamonds have the appearance of being an original constituent of the eclogite.
Some regard the eclogite boulders as derived from deep-seated crystalline rocks, others as concretions in the blue ground.
eclogite
noun
Word Origin for eclogite
C19: from Greek eklogē a selection
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