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Record 1 2005-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

The main mineralogical types are: ... muscovite-biotite granite (binary or two-mica granite) ...

OBS

Zirkel (1866) described the following varieties of the granite according to the nature of the dark minerals: ... two-mica granite ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Variété de granite.

CONT

Granites à deux micas : biotite et muscovite, feldspath, quartz.

Spanish

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