clinopyroxene

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any pyroxene that has a monoclinic crystal structure.

   “The alkali basalts are fine-grained in hand specimen with scattered phenocrysts of greenish olivine up to 5 mm in size. In thin section, the fine-grained groundmass is composed of intergranular olivine, clinopyroxne, plagioclase, Fe–Ti oxides and intersertal glass.”