harzburgite

English

Etymology

From Harzburg +‎ -ite.

Noun

harzburgite (usually uncountable, plural harzburgites)

1. An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.
   • 2000 January 14, Roberta L. Rudnick et al., “Rutile-Bearing Refractory Eclogites: Missing Link Between Continents and Depleted Mantle”, in Science‎^[1], volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 278–281:

     The two rutiles occur in veins in harzburgite xenoliths carried in volcanoes of the eastern African Rift: Labait and Pello Hill.