a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
Examples of 'clinopyroxene' in a sentence
clinopyroxene
The mineral constituents of local granulite are plagioclase, amphibole, biotite, clinopyroxene, garnet, and orthopyroxene.
Carmine Apollaro 2019, 'Geochemical Modeling of Water-Rock Interaction in the Granulite Rocks of Lower Crustin the Serre Massif (Southern Calabria, Italy)', Geofluidshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5602648. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Re-fertilized garnet and clinopyroxene are more enriched.
I.V. Ashchepkov, T. Ntaflos, Z.V. Spetsius, R.F. Salikhov, H. Downes 2017, 'Interaction between protokimberlite melts and mantle lithosphere: Evidence from mantlexenoliths from the Dalnyaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia (Russia)', Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116300512. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In all lithotypes both ortho- and clinopyroxene are replaced by hornblende and biotite.
Julio Cezar Mendes, Cristina M.P. De Campos 2012, 'Norite and charnockites from the Venda Nova Pluton, SE Brazil: Intensive parametersand some petrogenetic constraints', Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000837. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
They are composed of orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene phenocrysts with serpentine, talc, and amphibole (altered clinopyroxene).
Tarun C. Khanna, V. V. Sesha Sai, S. H. Jaffri, A. Keshav Krishna, M. M. Korakoppa 2018, 'Boninites in the ~3.3 Ga Holenarsipur Greenstone Belt, Western Dharwar Craton, India',Geoscienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/7/248. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Additional well calibrated single-clinopyroxene thermobarometric calculations were also applied.
Monica Escayola, Salvador Galí, Joan Carles Melgarejo, Sandra E. Robles-Cruz 2012, 'Major- and Trace-Element Compositions of Indicator Minerals that Occur as Macro- andMegacrysts, and of Xenoliths, from Kimberlites in Northeastern Angola', Mineralshttp://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/2/4/318. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Ortho and clinopyroxene are present in the both lithotypes.
Julio Cezar Mendes, Cristina Maria Wiedemann, Ian McReath 2002, 'Norito e Charnoenderbitos da Borda do Maciço Intrusivo de Venda Nova (Espírito Santo)',Anuário do Instituto de Geociênciashttp://www.anuario.igeo.ufrj.br/anuario_2002/vol25_99_124.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Relict clinopyroxene grains, according to microprobe profiling, are characterized by homogeneous composition.
V. V. Chashchin, E. N. Steshenko, Ye. E. Savchenko, Ya. A. Pakhomovsky, A. V. Bazai 2016, 'Mineral associations in the rocks and metamorphism conditions of the Kandalaksha gabbro-anorthositemassif (Kola Peninsula)', Литосфераhttps://test.lithosphere.ru/jour/article/view/40. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Petrographically, the studied flows are porphyritic basalts with plagioclase and clinopyroxene representing dominant phenocrystal phases.
Th. Dhanakumar Singh, C. Manikyamba, K.S.V. Subramanyam, Sohini Ganguly, Arubam C.Khelen, N. Ramakrishna Reddy 2018, 'Mantle heterogeneity, plume-lithosphere interaction at rift controlled ocean-continenttransition zone: Evidence from trace-PGE geochemistry of Vempalle flows, CuddapahBasin, India', Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987118300045. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Matrix hornblende shows incipient breakdown to garnet-clinopyroxene-quartz intergrowth due to a granulite facies reworking.
Sankar Bose, Susmita Guha, Gautam Ghosh, Kaushik Das, Joydip Mukhopadhyay 2015, 'Tectonic juxtaposition of crust and continental growth during orogenesis: Examplefrom the Rengali Province, eastern India', Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987114001297. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cumulus magnetite grains are commonly euhedral and enclosed within olivine and clinopyroxene.
Huan Dong, Changming Xing, Christina Yan Wang 2013, 'Textures and mineral compositions of the Xinjie layered intrusion, SW China: Implicationsfor the origin of magnetite and fractionation process of Fe-Ti-rich basaltic magmas',Geoscience Frontiershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987113000303. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)