monchiquite

English

Noun

monchiquite (countable and uncountable, plural monchiquites)

1. (mineralogy) A black, basaltic igneous rock consisting of a ground mass of automorphic augite and magnetite with many embedded phenocrysts, usually of olivine.
   • 1917, Geological Survey (U.S.), Professional Paper (issue 93, page 84)

     It resembles the analcite basalts of the Highwood Mountains, in Montana, and the monchiquites of Brazil.

   • 2019, A. R. Woolley, Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World (part 4, page 450)

     Seven samples from monchiquite dykes analysed chemically by Upton et al. (1992), including trace elements and, for three rocks, Sr and Nd isotope data, were classified on chemical grounds as olivine melanephelinite […]

Derived terms

• monchiquitic

References

• mindat.org