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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name given by Cross (1897) to an aphanitic lava, with micaphenocrysts composed of leucite and orthoclase in nearly equal amounts, with phlogopite and diopside. It is related to wyomingite and madupite.

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