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- Aphanites (adj. aphanitic; from Ancient Gr**** αφανης (aphanḗs) 'invisible') are igneous rocks that are so fine-grained that their component mineral crystals...
- Taxon identifiers Aphanites Wikidata: Q4779489 GBIF: 4624037 IRMNG: 1284653 Open Tree of Life: 2870350 Paleobiology Database: 13622...
- rock – A group of varieties of lamprophyre, mostly rich in hornblende Aphanite – Igneous rock composed of very small crystals invisible to the naked eye...
- tiny matrix crystals and the much larger phenocrysts. Porphyries may be aphanites or phanerites, that is, the groundm**** may have microscopic crystals as...
- Soapstone Tectonite Whiteschist Specific varieties Adamellite Appinite Aphanite Borolanite Blue Granite Epidosite Felsite Flint Ganister Gossan Hyaloclastite...
- with water (e.g.; amphibole and biotite replacing pyroxene). However, in aphanites, or rocks with phenocrysts clearly out of equilibrium with the groundm****...