[meteorite-list] Geno-, mono-, polymict, and xenolithic -- Part 2 of 3
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Mon Jul 11 14:58:33 EDT 2005
McSWEEN H.Y. (1999) Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
(Cambridge University Press, Glossary, p. 288):
xenolith: an inclusion of a foreign rock trapped within an igneous rock.
HUTCHISON R. (2004) Meteorites: A Petrologic, Chemical, and Isotopic
Synthesis (Cambridge Planetary Science Series, pp. 506, Glossary, p. 444):
breccia: rock composed of fragmented rocks and minerals:
genomict breccia: a rock composed of genetically related
fragments of different texture.
monomict breccia: a rock composed of fragments of a single type.
polymict breccia: a rock composed of fragments from more than one source.
xenolith: a foreign rock; a lithic fragment genetically distinct from its
host rock or melt; has been extended to include fragments of related rock,
termed cognate xenoliths.
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