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1. Eclogite

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   Eclogite as Xenoliths
   Eclogite is occasionally recovered as xenoliths entrained within rising mantle plumes or ascending magmas, particularly within kimberlite pipes or deep basaltic intrusions. When analyzed as xenoliths, these fragments provide direct, albeit temporally isolated, samples of subducted continental material or deep crustal slivers that have been rapidly transported back to th…