Olivine Definition

Olivine Sentence Examples

• The boulder is a crystalline rock consisting of pyroxene (chrome-diopside), garnet, and a little olivine, and is studded with diamond crystals; a portion of it is preserved in the British Museum (Natural History).

• They are soft and lustrous, with a peculiarly smooth feel, and though often confounded with mica-schists may be distinguished by their richness in magnesia; many of them contain tremolite or actinolite; others have residual grains of olivine or augite; and here also every gradation can be found between the unmodified igneous types and the perfectly metamorphic schists.

• They found relatively large grains and many small crystals of a mineral called olivine.

• The most common ferromagnesian minerals include olivine, pyroxene, amphibole and mica.

• The Green Sand Beach in the south of the island of Hawaii (Big Island) contains just this green, well-rounded olivine.