- 124° angles.
Hornblende is most
often confused with the
pyroxene series and
biotite mica,
which are also dark
minerals found in
granite and charnockite...
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crystallization of
hornblende rather than biotite. I-type
granites are
known for
their porphyry copper deposits. I-type
granites are
orogenic (****ociated...
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oligoclase (a
variety of plagioclase).
Common mineral components include hornblende and biotite. The name has come to be used most
frequently as a textural...
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agents of
chemical weathering. For example, an
experimental study on
hornblende granite in New Jersey, US,
demonstrated a 3x – 4x
increase in
weathering rate...
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mafic composition granites,
those with a
higher color index,
contain more
hornblende and biotite.
Hornblende is a
typical I-type
granite mineral which never...
- feldspar, mica in the form of
muscovite and/or biotite, and
amphibole (often
hornblende).
Oxide minerals such as magnetite, ilmenite, or ulvospinel. Some sulfides...
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named after the rock. The term
syenite was
originally applied to
hornblende granite like that of
Syene (now Aswan) in Egypt, from
which the name is derived...
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stand are made of
Mauthausen granite from Enns in
Upper Austria, the
pedestal and base are made of
brown hornblende granite from Petersburg-Jeschitz near...
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oldest of the Jur****ic
intrusive rocks consist of
hornblende-quartz
diorite gneiss and
hornblende-quartz
monzodiorite gneiss. Both
gneisses contain megacrysts...
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Pikes Peak
granite is a 1.08
billion year old Late-Precambrian
geologic formation found in the
central part of the
Front Range of Colorado. It is a co****-grained...
