Sentences with phrase «within olivine crystals»
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Although the heat of the upper mantle might help the olivine or pyroxene crystals within the rocks grow larger again, or «heal,» the two rock types are competing for space: Each is actually inhibited in its growth by the other's presence.
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In particular, they looked at samples that contained melt inclusions, tiny dots of molten magma that became trapped within crystals of olivine.