Sentences with phrase «mineral olivine»

For years, Jacobsen has been synthesizing ringwoodite, colored sapphire - like blue, in his Northwestern lab by reacting the green mineral olivine with water at high - pressure conditions.

These form when carbon dissolved in water seeps into rocks containing the mineral olivine.

Mars» crust is rich in the mineral olivine, which does not bond well with water and so is relatively dry.

Or, purely inorganic reactions between water and rock rich in the mineral olivine could do it, as found in hot springs near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

The minerals are thought to have formed when liquid water — either from subsurface groundwater or from shallow, ephemeral lakes on the surface — came into contact with the mineral olivine.

The mineral olivine (Mg2SiO4) has been the focus of the most research.

Like evidence left at a crime scene, the mineral olivine may be the clue that helps scientists piece together Mars's possibly violent history.

Tau Ceti's planets could very well be dominated by the mineral olivine at shallow parts of the mantle and have lower mantles dominated by ferropericlase,» explains Shim.

The dunes are also known to contain the mineral olivine, which can easily be altered by water into different minerals.