Crossword-Solution: PERIDOTITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peridotite | n. | An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine. |
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| Rock containing olivine | 1 answer |
| an ultramafic igneous rock, the major constituent of the mantle | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
TUSETA
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Sentences with PERIDOTITE (5)
The original rock was a highly magnesian igneous rock of the peridotite type, which is very unstable under weathering conditions, and rapidly alters to serpentine.
Asbestos deposits occur chiefly as veinlets in serpentine rock, which is itself the alteration of some earlier rock like peridotite.
Small diamonds have been found in peridotite masses in Pike County, Arkansas, but these are of very little commercial value.
With the Jurassic beds is associated an extensive series of eruptive rocks (gabbro, peridotite, serpentine, diorite, granite, &c.); they are chiefly of Jurassic age, but the eruptions may have continued into the Lower Cretaceous.
Specimens of rock allied to eclogite have been found in the diamantiferous peridotite breccias of South Africa (the so-called "blue ground"), and this has given rise to the theory that these are the parent masses from which the Kimberley diamonds have come.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).