ampholite

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1984, Nonna Bakun-Czubarow, Jacek Leliwa-Kopystyński, “Hypothetical Phase Transformations in the Earth's Mantle”, in Jacek Leliwa-Kopystyński, Roman Teisseyre, editors, Constitution of the Earth's Interior (Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior; 1), New York, NY: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 300:

The primitive nondifferentiated matter of the Earth's upper mantle may appear in the form of four varieties of pyrolite (plagioclase, spinel, pyroxene, or garnet pyrolite) or ampholite. The main minerals of pyrolite are olivine and pyroxenes, while ampholite is composed of olivine and amphibole.