xenolith

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İngilizce - Türkçe
ksenolit
İngilizce - İngilizce
any piece of rock having a different origin to that of the igneous rock in which it is found
(geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded
Fragment of a rock included in another rock
An inclusion in an igneous rock of a rock of different composition to the host rock
a piece of the surrounding rock that was broken off and dropped into the granite (or any other igneous intrusion) while it was still molten, from xeno "foreign" and lith "rock"
A piece of pre-existing rock found within an igneous rock, often composed of pieces of country rock into which magma was intruded
-Rock fragments from a different type of rock that are imbedded in a granitic rock
{i} mineral which is foreign to the rock in which it is located