nephelinite
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nephelinite
[ne′fel·ə‚nīt] (petrology)
A dark-colored, aphanitic rock of volcanic origin, composed essentially of nepheline and pyroxene; texture is usually porphyritic with large crystals of augite and nepheline in a very-fine-grained matrix.