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crystalline rock

Any rock composed entirely of crystallized minerals without glassy matter (matter without visible crystals). Intrusive igneous rocks (see intrusive rock) are nearly always crystalline; extrusive igneous rocks (see extrusive rock) may be partly to entirely glassy. Metamorphic rocks are also always completely crystalline and are termed crystalline schists or gneisses. Sedimentary rocks can also be crystalline, such as crystalline limestones that precipitate directly from solution; the term is not generally applied to clastic sediments (made of fragments of preexisting rock), even though they are formed largely from the accumulation of crystalline materials.

crystalline rock

′kris·tə·lən ′räk

(petrology)

Rock made up of minerals in a clearly crystalline state.

Igneous and metamorphic rock, as opposed to sedimentary rock.

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It has a very old crystalline rock core that's covered with ice and glaciers, and it's surrounded by younger rocks," said Shilts, the executive director of the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability at Illinois.

Shrinking glaciers in North America tell story of climate change by Asian News International

The lowermost part of the sandy ejecta includes conglomeratic sandstone interlayers with pebbles of black Dictyonema shale (kerogen-enriched argillite) and crystalline rocks (Kleesment et al.

Impact-induced and diagenetic changes in minerals in the sandy ejecta ... by Kleesment, Anne; Konsa, Mare; Puura, Vaino; Karhu, Juha; Preeden, Ulla; Kallaste, Toivo / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology

The patch, painted with powder made from a crystalline rock which absorbs radiation, was launched by inventor Kim Dandurand and Scots pharmaceutical scientist Dr David Hamilton, at Glasgow Science Park.

Inventor blocks phone radiation by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

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crystal-stabilized transmitter

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