buchite
buchite
[′bü‚kīt] (petrology)
A partially vitrified inclusion of sandstone in basalt.
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References in periodicals archive
The name
buchite is used for a glassy pyrometamorphic volcanic rock (Callegari and Pertsev, 2007).
Foit Jr., F., Hooper, R., Rosenberg, P., An unusual pyroxene, melilite, and iron oxide mineral assemblage in a coal-fire
buchite from Buffalo, Wyoming, Am.
565-566 of this issue of The Journal); and
buchite from Eifel, Germany (see Gem Note on pp.
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