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What does eclogite mean?

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Noun
  1. (petrology) A coarse-grained metamorphic rock, a mixture of pyroxene, quartz, and feldspar with inclusions of red garnet.
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Diamonds sometimes contain minute inclusions of the minerals garnet, olivine, and pyroxene, which indicate formation in two major mantle rock-types, peridotite and eclogite.
A large sample of eclogite was collected from a small bay close to Letterfearn.
Assiduoud field-workers have discovered little pods of a rock called eclogite in the rocks around San Bernardino.
With omphacite and smaragdite, garnet forms the peculiar rock called eclogite.
Some regard the eclogite boulders as derived from deep-seated crystalline rocks, others as concretions in the blue ground.
In similar contrast to the Okenyenya xenolith suite, lithologies such as wehrlite, eclogite and pyroxenite are also absent.

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