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porphyritic rock

NOUN
  1. any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals

How To Use porphyritic rock In A Sentence

  • The biotite-granite continues these trends of increasing orthoclase over plagioclase and biotite over homblende, to produce a coarse-grained pink porphyritic rock in which orthoclase phenocrysts dominate.
  • These crystals eventually form the phenocrysts found in porphyritic rocks.
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