Wehrlite
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wehrlite is a noun meaning (geology) A type of peridotite that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene.
Meaning
(geology) A type of peridotite that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene.
More Meanings
- (mineralogy) A naturally-occurring alloy of bismuth and tellurium, primarily Bi₂Te₃.
Example Sentences
While tetradymite has been recorded in shallow settings (e.g., Boulder County belt), this mineral along with other bismuth tellurides like wehrlite, tellurbismuth, and so forth (see Thompson, 1949) seem to be most common in mesothermal and even more intense settings.
Even within a single massif the igneous suite may be highly variable and range in character from quartz-normative tholeiitic to under-saturated alkaline. Rock types include wehrlite, olivine pyroxenite and hornblendite; teschenite, eucrite, and olivine, hypersthene, and hornblende gabbros; diorite, trondhjemite, alkaline syenite, and granophyre; augite, hypersthene, and oligoclase basalts and dolerites; variolite and camptonite.
Word Forms
- wehrlites
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ureilite, howlite, lherzolite, chesterlite, stillwellite, weilite.
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