igneous mineral

[′ig·nē·əs ¦min·rəl]

(mineralogy)

Mineral material forming igneous rock.

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feldspar

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The size of the superimposed geologic, geochemical and geophysical anomalies is interpreted to represent a large porphyry copper bearing igneous mineral body intrusive into limestone sediments.

Liberty Star Acquires 8 Square Miles of Mineral Rights over a Large Porphyry Copper - Precious Metal Target in Cochise County, Arizona

These clay minerals are a product of the reaction of relatively fresh water with igneous minerals, such as olivine, also present in the sediment.

Ancient Mars could have supported living microbes

In every case, the organic carbon particles were found in inclusions within igneous minerals.

Organic carbon on Mars is abiotic

He describes how the earth's crust and mantle evolved and how magma continues to be generated, then covers magmas and igneous rocks, crystal-liquid relations, igneous minerals and their textures, the mechanisms and effects of magmatic intrusions and their expression across a variety of terrain, basalts and magma series, oceanic magmatism and flood basalts, magmatism at convergent plate boundaries, granitic plutons and siliceous ignimbrites, and the relation of magmatism to the continental interiors.

Igneous petrology, 3d ed

Oxygen in water experimentally released during modest heating is isotopically distinct from oxygen in the igneous minerals that comprise the bulk of these meteorites.