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xenolith
[ zen-l-ith ]
noun
Petrography.
- a rock fragment foreign to the igneous rock in which it is embedded.
xenolith
/ 藞锄蓻苍蓹濒瑟胃 /
noun
- a fragment of rock differing in origin, composition, structure, etc, from the igneous rock enclosing it
xenolith
- A rock fragment foreign to the igneous mass in which it occurs. Xenoliths usually become incorporated into a cooling magma body when pieces of the rock into which the magma was injected break off and fall into it.
- Compare xenocryst
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Derived Forms
- 藢虫别苍辞藞濒颈迟丑颈肠, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 虫别苍顎卭路濒颈迟丑顎僫肠 adjective
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Example Sentences
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鈥淥h, look at this, this is really cool,鈥 Penn says, picking up another rock with another white spot - a xenolith, he says, another fragment from the Earth鈥檚 crust.
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