Sentences with phrase «plagioclase feldspar»

NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars and finds plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine minerals.

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.

The spectral character of these spots is distinct from surrounding mare and highlands material and from regions composed of pure plagioclase feldspar.

Thousands to millions of years later, these elements combined with silicates in the moon's mantle to form plagioclase feldspars, which eventually moved to the surface and formed the moon's crust, said Roy.

Not exact matches

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!!!