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LEUCITITA [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

An extrusive igneous rock, coloured ash gray to nearly black, that contains leucite and augite as large, single crystals (phenocrysts) in a fine-grained matrix (groundmass) of leucite, augite, sanidine, apatite, titanite, magnetite, and melilite ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Roche magmatique effusive, finement grenue, formée de cristaux automorphes de leucite et de pyroxènes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
OBS

Variedad de lava de la familia de las ijolitas, que contiene leucita y augita, y en ciertos casos, olivino.

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