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Webster 1913 Edition
Eclogite
Ec′lo-gite
,Noun.
[See
Ecloque
.] (Min.)
A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; – so called in reference to its beauty.
Definition 2024
eclogite
eclogite
English
Noun
eclogite (plural eclogites)
- (petrology) A coarse-grained metamorphic rock, a mixture of pyroxene, quartz, and feldspar with inclusions of red garnet.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 101:
- Assiduoud field-workers have discovered little pods of a rock called eclogite in the rocks around San Bernardino.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 101: