xenolith in a sentence
Examples
- It also contains xenoliths both from Agua Dulce lavas and Paleozoic sediments.
- As a result, xenoliths are older than the rock which contains them.
- Xenoliths containing quartz and gabbro nodules also have part in the rock composition.
- San Antonio lavas contain large plagioclase xenocrystals and xenoliths.
- Several other igneous xenoliths are also related to the upper mantle and basalts.
- Xenoliths of granulite-facies metamorphic rock resemble those found in eastern Antarctica.
- Xenoliths do not exist in the older lava flows.
- It occurs within a xenolith in a leucite tephrite.
- The later group contain more common basic microgranite xenoliths.
- These xenoliths include pieces of limestone, clastic sedimentary rocks, and gneiss.