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Any of a heterogeneous group of gray to black, mafic igneous rocks characterized by a distinctive panidiomorphic and porphyritic texture in which...



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Specimens of lamprophyre. (a) Minette, found near Walsenburg, Colorado. The altered sanidine matrix also contains other minor minerals. (b) Camptonite, found in Campton Falls, New Hampshire. (After H. Williams and C. M. Gilbert, Petrography: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections, W. H. Freeman, 1954)
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