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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crystal foreign to the igneous rock in which it occurs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In petrography, a term proposed by Sollas for a crystal in an igneous rock which has been included by the igneous magma before the solidification of the rock.
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- xeno- + cryst(al).
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 256 more...

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