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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A volcanic rock closely allied to the basalts in character, but in which nephelin takes the place of feldspar either wholly or in large part. Nephelin-rocks are almost exclusively of neovolcanic age. See
nephelin-basalt and nephelin-tephrite.
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