Sentences with phrase «mineral plagioclase»
The Kaguya orbiter looked for anorthosite, a type of rock enriched in the relatively low - density mineral plagioclase.
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Much of this work has been on carbonation of an abundant type of lava, basalt, which contains minor amounts of olivine together with large proportions of alumino - silicate minerals such as plagioclase feldspar.
NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars and finds plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine minerals.
since the most common mineral on the earth / the most probable mineral you might kick while walking are the plagioclase - feldspars (binary - join: albite to anorthite); silicates, this was hardly any news at all!!!