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SUBPORPHYRIQUE [1 record]

Record 1 1997-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Having, in an imperfect degree, the character of porphyry.

CONT

The mineralized zones ... are concordant to the layering in the host sequence, as defined by abrupt changes from coarse feldspar-porphyritic to subporphyritic (smaller and less abundant phenocrysts) to non-porphyritic rhyolites.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

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