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OPHITIC TEXTURE [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

... the texture of an igneous rock, especially diabase, in which lath-shaped plagioclase crystals are included in pyroxene crystals, typically augite.

OBS

doleritic: A preferred synonym of ophitic in European usage.

OBS

basiophitic; granitotrachytic; gabbroid: nonpreferred synonyms [of ophitic].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
DEF

[...] texture d'une dolérite à grands cristaux poecilitiques de pyroxènes.

CONT

La plupart des roches ayant la texture ophitique (grands cristaux de feldspaths formant une sorte de charpente) appartiennent à la famille du gabbro.

Spanish

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