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Ultramafic rocks, composed mainly of olivine and pyroxenes, are a major component in the lithosphere of early terrestrial planets, where they formed by direct crystallization of mantle-derived magmas on the planet's surface or by partial crystallization as cumulates from a magma ocean. On modern
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