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kelyphite (plural kelyphites)

  1. (mineralogy) A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
    • 2000 May 19, Kenneth D. Collerson with et al., “Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific”, in Science[1], volume 288, number 5469, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1215–1223:
      Relationships shown in Fig. 3, B and C demonstrate that formation of the symplectite predated development of glassy kelyphite veins which formed by decompression melting during rapid ascent of the host alnöite.
    • 2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02[2]:
      Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.