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granite-porphyry

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A rock consisting of a fine-grained, holocrystalline base, through which the ordinary constituents of granite are scattered in more or less regular crystalline forms. It is closely connected with and passes into porphyritic granite and quartz-porphyry. See granite, , and porphyry.

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