hypersthene 的定义
Mineralogy.
- a dark iron magnesium silicate, an orthorhombic pyroxene containing more than 14 percent ferrous oxide.
更多hypersthene例句
- In the same flow hypersthene-andesite may occur in one portion, while in close proximity the lava is an augite-andesite.
- It may be noted also that hypersthene shows a tendency to magmatic alteration, although only rarely.
- Both are light colored, and the pleochroism of the hypersthene is sometimes quite faint.
- It also surrounds olivine in this same rock, which is a hypersthene-andesite, the hornblende and olivine being only accessory.
- Hypersthene is not the prevailing pyroxene, and olivine is usually present, often in such abundance as to make the rock a basalt.