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| Name | Serpentinite |
| Texture | Non-foliated to weakly-foliated; Variable grain size |
| Composition | Serpentine |
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| Color | Mottled Green and gray |
| Miscellaneous | May be harder than glass in places |
| Metamorphic Type | Hydrothermal |
| Metamorphic Grade | Low Grade |
| Parent Rock | Peridotite |
| Metamorphic Environment | Hydrothermal solutions concentrated during final stages of magma crystallization in batholiths or hot seawater solutions drawn down into subduction zones |
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