Ultramafic rock

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Dark-colored, medium- to coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock, commonly massive-appearing, generally lacking layering or banding and originally composed chiefly of olivine and pyroxene; commonly altered to serpentine and talc. Occurs as small intrusions in the uplands.

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