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PEGMATOIDE [2 records]

Record 1 2003-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

... an igneous rock with the coarse-grained texture of a pegmatite but lacking graphic intergrowths or a typically granitic composition.

PHR

Ultrabasic pegmatoid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Des pegmatoïdes ultrabasiques renferment : olivine, phlogopite, diopside, ou bien : diopside-phlogopite-apatite.

CONT

Le complexe du Bushveld [...] compte de haut en bas [...] : anorthosite; norite; pyroxénite porphyrique [...]; pegmatoïdes renfermant un peu de minerai; norite.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

Suggested to denote very coarse-grained facies of igneous rock having a pegmatite habit, but differing from pegmatite proper by the absence of graphic texture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

À faciès de pegmatite.

CONT

Texture pegmatoïde de l'amphibolite.

Spanish

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