Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A word introduced by Rosenbusch to designate the structure of rocks of the granitic family, where the magma in assuming a crystalline character has shrunk in dimensions so as to leave numerous small cavities, giving the mass a structure somewhat analogous to that commonly designated as saccharoidal, as in the case of metamorphic limestone, and also to that to which the name drusy is sometimes applied.
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- adjective mineralogy Being or pertaining to a
crystal -lined irregularcavity orvug most commonly found ingranitic pegmatites .
Etymologies
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Related to Italian miarole.
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We have begun a study of porphyritic pyroxene rhyolite, erupted as pyroclastic flow, and its intrusive equivalent, ejected during the same eruption as blocks of miarolitic granite with spectacular granophyric groundmass.
Granophyre.html 1998
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