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Banded iron formation are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age
Western Australia, Minnesota
From its formation process
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Troctolite is a mafic intrusive rock type. It consists essentially of major but variable amounts of olivine and calcic plagioclase along with minor pyroxene. It is an olivine-rich anorthosite, or a pyroxene-depleted relative of gabbro
Christian Leopold von Buch
From German Troklotit, from Greek trōktēs, a marine fish (taken to be trout)
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock