iddingsite

[′id·iŋ‚zīt]

(mineralogy)

A reddish-brown mixture of silicates, forming patches in basic igneous rocks.

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Composition measurements of the Y000593 spherules show that they are significantly enriched in carbon compared to the nearby surrounding iddingsite layers.

Life On Mars? Evidence of Water in Meteorite

Moreover, its phenocrystal unity is a compound of plagioclase, kaersutite, iddingsite olivine minerals.

Glazed stones: Enver Guner introduces the concept of glazed stones

2 Olivine or iddingsite Most probably collected porphyritic basalt as a pebble Item no.

Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place

Olivine occurs in nearly ail cumulates as sub- to anhedral grains, and is partly altered to serpentine or iddingsite.

The lherzolite is composed of olivine (mostly altered to iddingsite and serpentine) enclosed by blurry clinopyroxene oikocrysts.

The origin of mafic-ultramafic bodies within the northern Dashwoods Subzone, Newfoundland Appalachians

Analyzing 10 samples of the meteorite by radioactive dating, the team found that the iddingsite formed between 274 and 655 million years ago.