Eclogite Definition

ĕklə-jīt
noun
A coarse-grained greenish rock consisting primarily of garnet and sodic pyroxene, and often including quartz, kyanite, and rutile.
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Other Word Forms of Eclogite

Noun

Singular:
eclogite
Plural:
eclogites

Origin of Eclogite

  • French éclogite from Greek eklogē selection (because the minerals it contains are not usually found together) eclogue

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἐκλογή (ekloge, “selection").

    From Wiktionary

Eclogite Sentence Examples

  • In a basic neck of this period at Inverell, there are eclogite boulders, containing diamonds in situ; and it is doubtless from these basic volcanic necks that the diamonds of the New England tableland have been derived.

  • In another eclogite boulder, diamond was found partly embedded in pyrope.

  • In the Newlands boulder the diamonds have the appearance of being an original constituent of the eclogite.

  • On the other hand many tons of the somewhat similar eclogite in the De Beers mine have been crushed and have not yielded diamond.

  • In both occurrences, however, there is still the possibility that the eclogite or the basalt is not the original matrix, but may have caught up the already formed diamond from some other matrix.

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