| 1. | The mountain consists mostly of soapstone and dunite.
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| 2. | Rock types include picrite, peridotite, dunite, pyroxenite, gabbro and granophyre.
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| 3. | Samples of the ridge from the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount were ultramafic dunite . hotspot.
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| 4. | Dunite xenoliths are found within the erupted basalts.
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| 5. | Olivine and dunite, both found in subducted crust, are materials of this sort.
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| 6. | Low silicon content is indicative of mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks, such as basalt and dunite.
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| 7. | The parent rock of this banded variety most likely was a pyroxenite enclosing cumulate layers of dunite.
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| 8. | Peridotite and dunite, when fresh, can contain up to ~ 4, 000 ppm nickel within olivine.
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| 9. | Amphibolite and chert tectonic blocks also occur in the dunite near the area's southern and western boundaries.
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| 10. | The Lherz massif also contains harzburgite and dunite, as well as layers of spinel pyroxenite, garnet pyroxenite, and hornblendite.
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