Keratophyre (Q43311)

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A term originally used for a quartz-bearing orthoclase-plagioclase rock with a dense groundmass, but later used for albitized felsic extrusive rocks consisting essentially of albite with minor mafic minerals, often altered to chlorite
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Keratophyre
A term originally used for a quartz-bearing orthoclase-plagioclase rock with a dense groundmass, but later used for albitized felsic extrusive rocks consisting essentially of albite with minor mafic minerals, often altered to chlorite

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