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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In petrol., a term applied to hypoabyssal igneous rocks occurring in dikes which are considered to represent undifferentiated magmas of the depths, and thus to stand in contrast to *haplitic and lamprophyric dike rocks, considered as complementary differentiation products of deep-seated magmas.

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