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Lherzolite is a type of ultramafic igneous rock which contains essential olivine and clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene in equal proportions
From the Lherz Massif, an alpine peridotite complex, at Étang de Lers, near Massat in the French Pyrenees; Lherz is the archaic spelling of this location
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Mangerite is a plutonic intrusive igneous rock, which is essentially a hypersthene-bearing monzonite
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock