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- Serpentinite is a rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic...
- The Staten Island Serpentinite locality is a southward extension of the New England Uplands, adjacent to the Manhattan Prong. It includes Todt Hill on...
- The Coal Cr**** Serpentinite (Coal Cr**** Serpentine) is a name for a Precambrian rock formation that outcrops on the southeastern side of the Llano Uplift...
- phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite. They are used as a source of magnesium and asbestos, and as decorative...
- such as olivine and pyroxene, in mafic and ultramafic rock to produce serpentinite. Minerals formed by serpentinization include the serpentine group minerals...
- The Merlis Serpentinites are an aligned group of small serpentinite outcrops in the northwestern French M****if Central. Their parent rocks were peridotites...
- (formerly Big Blue), and South Chamorro serpentinite mud volcanoes. These mud volcanoes erupt a unique serpentinite mud composition that is related to the...
- Hand sample of skarn containing serpentinite from the edge of the Alta Stock, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah...
- name of ophiolites, because of the superficial texture of some of them. Serpentinite especially evokes a snakeskin. (The suffix -lite is from the Gr**** lithos...
- barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. It forms in low temperature, high pressure environments typical of subduction...