Definitions
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- adjective mineralogy Containing or relating to
harzburgite .
Etymologies
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harzburgite + -ic
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Beneath ocean basins and adjacent to spreading centers, oceanic Serpentosphere is continuously generated by the interactions of deep circulating marine composition water – partly in super-critical state –with harzburgitic peridotite in a process referred to as serpentinization.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
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In effect, both oceanic and continental Serpentospheres reflect a deep ‘weathering’ process that consists of the interaction of deep crustal and oceanic, water-dominated fluids with the upper portion of a mainly harzburgitic peridotite at the top of the earth’s lithospheric mantle.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
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