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granophyre

[ gran-uh-fahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.


granophyre

/ ˌɡrænəʊˈfɪrɪk; ˈɡrænəʊˌfaɪə /

noun

  1. a fine-grained granitic rock in which irregular crystals of intergrown quartz and feldspar are embedded in a groundmass of these minerals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

granophyre

/ ăə-ī′ /

  1. A fine-grained igneous rock that has large intergrown crystals of quartz and feldspar in the matrix.
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Derived Forms

  • granophyric, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··· [gran-, uh, -, fir, -ik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of granophyre1

First recorded in 1880–85; grano- + -phyre
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of granophyre1

C19: from gran ( ite ) + -phyre after porphyry
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Example Sentences

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Such rocks are the granophyre hills of Buttermere and Ennerdale, the microgranite patches on either side of the Vale of St John, and the great mass of Eskdale granite which reaches from Wastwater to the flanks of Black Combe.

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Low, brown boulders and rust-colored piles of super-hard granophyre give no clue to the location of the artistic riches hidden in the scrub beyond the sealed road from Karratha.

Another granite area appears on the south side of the road between Brodick and Shiskine, where it is associated with granophyre and quartz-diorite and traverses the volcanic vent of post-Cretaceous or Tertiary age already described.

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Granophyre.—This term, according to Geikie, embraces the greater portion of the acid volcanic rocks of the Inner Hebrides.

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This is the essential distinction between a granite and a quartz-porphyry or a granophyre.

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