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MALCHITE [1 record]

Record 1 2017-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A fine-grained lamprophyre with small, rare phenocrysts or hornblende, labradorite, and sometimes biotite embedded in a matrix of hornblende, andesine, and some quartz.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Variété de microdiorite dans laquelle le plagioclase et la hornblende verte sont finement enchevêtrés.

OBS

Le grain de [cette] roche est si fin qu'à l'œil nu on ne distingue qu'une pâte verte aphanitique.

Spanish

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