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Xenolith

A piece of foriegn rock enclosed within an igneous rock. The foriegn rock is usually picked up from the walls surrounding the igneous rock and is frozen in place before it has a chance to melt. (iinclusion).
X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

A method of analyzing the structure of a mineral by examining the pattern created when x-rays are passed through a crystal of the mineral.

 
   
   
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