troctolite

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English

Etymology

From German Troktolit.

Noun

troctolite (usually uncountable, plural troctolites)

  1. (geology) A rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase
    • 2009 January 16, Ian Garrick-Bethell et al., “Early Lunar Magnetism”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912, →DOI:
      Here, we report a magnetic study of an unshocked ancient rock with a well-constrained thermal history, troctolite 76535.

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