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Websterite
Pyroxenite with clino and orthopyroxene
Websterite is ultramafic igneous rock, a type of pyroxenite that has less than 5% olivine and roughly equal proportions of orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene.
Websterite is named after the town Webster in North Carolina.
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- Layered Websterite in Basement Sill in McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica.jpg by Nick Petford and Seyed Mirhadizadeh, CC BY 4.0
- Peridotite Olivine-Orthopyroxene-Clinopyroxene Websterite highlighted.svg by Tobias1984, CC BY-SA 3.0
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