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xenocryst

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xenocryst [′zēn·ə‚krist]
(crystallography)
A crystal in igneous rock that resembles a phenocryst and is foreign to the enclosing body of rock. Also known as chadacryst.
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2004, Discovery of Archean continental and mantle fragments inferred from xenocrysts in komatiites, the Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: Geology, v.
Igneous rock associations 10. Komatiites by Dostal, Jaroslav / Geoscience Canada
Mantle xenoliths and xenocrysts, brought to the surface by diamondiferous kimberlite pipes, provide a complex picture of distinct and stratified mantle domains (Kopylova et al.
PanLITHOPROBE workshop IV: IntraOrogen correlations and comparative ... by van Staal, C. / Geoscience Canada
 
 
 
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