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- noun Plural form of
granulite .
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Little granulites of shingle tinkled into the gutter below as I crept silently down in my bare feet.
Martyr Mark Krieger 2010
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Most significant is the presence of the Sinharaja Basic Zone, consisting of hornblende, pyriclasts, basic charnokites, pyroxene amphibolites and scapolite-bearing calc-granulites and blended with small amounts of quartzites, garnet-biotite gneisses and intermediate charnokites.
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The south-western group consists of metasediments, charnokites and scapolite-bearing calc-granulites, while the highland group comprises khondalites of metamorphosed sediments and charnokites.
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