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Record 1 1989-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Petrography
DEF

A peralcaline rhyolite or quartz trachyte, less mafic than pantellerite.

CONT

The suite is peralkaline and markedly biomodal in character, with basalts, riebeckite trachytes, and comendites prominent.

OBS

Example taken from the Decade of North American Geology, Vol. 3, ch. 16.

OBS

The spelling "commendite" (Irvine and Baragar, 1971) is in error.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Variété de pantellerite très claire.

Spanish

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