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PANTELLERITE [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A peralkaline rhyolite or quartz trachyte with normative quartz exceeding 10% ...

OBS

... it is more mafic than comendite. Its name, given by Forstner in 1881, is derived from Pantelleria, an island in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[...] rhyolite sodique de teinte sombre, mésocrate, à aegyrine et arfvedsonite.

OBS

Le feldspath y forme d'assez gros cristaux de forme trapue plutôt que des microlites. Le verre y est abondant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Riolita sódica, con anortosa y egirina.

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