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granophyre
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granophyre [′granĀ·ə‚fīr]
(petrology)
A quartz porphyry or fine-grained porphyritic granite.


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A primary three-phase fluid inclusion assemblage contained within growth-zoned quartz crystals in the granophyric phase of the Nipissing diabase was chosen as representative of the highest temperature fluids responsible for ore deposition at Cobalt.
The drilling has intersected a previously unreported succession of layered mafic intrusive rocks including granophyric gabbro, anorthositic gabbro, hornblende pyroxenite and olivine pyroxenite, containing up to 30 percent combined ilmenite and magnetite.
 
 
 
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