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  • noun Plural form of felsite.

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  • The red and pink are felsites or fine-grained porphyries; the black and bottle-green are the coarse-grained varieties, easily disintegrating, and forming hollows [Illustration with caption: Fortification on the cliff commanding the right bank of Wady Sharma '.] in the harder granite.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The red and pink are felsites or fine-grained porphyries; the black and bottle-green are the coarse-grained varieties, easily disintegrating, and forming hollows [Illustration with caption:

    The Land of Midian 2003

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