English Explanatory Dictionary

orthoamphibolite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Metamorphic rock composed mostly of amphibole, plagioclase, with lesser amounts of epidote, zoisite, chlorite, quartz, titanite, and accessory leucoxene, ilmenite and magnetite derived from an igneous rock.

Word forms

orthoamphibolite orthoamphibolites ortho-amphibolite

Etymology

From ortho- + amphibolite.

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