peridotite in a sentence
Examples
- Hence, garnet peridotite must have been formed at great depth in the earth.
- Layered peridotites are igneous sediments and form by mechanical accumulation of dense olivine crystals.
- The crust and the relatively rigid peridotite below it make up the oceanic lithosphere.
- These blocks of mantle peridotite and the metamorphic eclogites are exposed as ophiolite complexes.
- The Wenatchee Mountains are mostly composed of peridotite.
- naturally reacts with peridotite rock in surface exposures of ophiolites, notably in Oman.
- Rock types include picrite, peridotite, dunite, pyroxenite, gabbro and granophyre.
- Peridot explains that it is superheated liquid peridotite, a material similar to peridots.
- Only 0.6 % are syenites and 0.3 % peridotites and dunites.
- The chromite bands found in peridotites are the world's major source of chromium.