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- noun Plural form of
phenocryst .
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Examples
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Gutmann (1974) found similar tubular voids in labradorite phenocrysts from Sonora, Mexico.
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CO2-rich vapors trapped along with silicate melt in mixed inclusions within phenocrysts as well as ejected ultramafic xenoliths.
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Kata Tjuta, covering about 3,500 ha, comprises 36 steep-sided rock domes of gently dipping Mount Currie conglomerate consisting of phenocrysts of fine grained acid and basic rocks, granite and gneiss in an epidote rich matrix.
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Six widespread tephras ~0.1–1.0 cm thick with rhyolitic to dacitic glass and/or phenocrysts of feldspar or hornblende are preserved in the glacial lakes of Las Cajas National Park, southern Ecuador.
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Others with no crystals, some with small white phenocrysts, maybe one to less than five percent.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Others with no crystals, some with small white phenocrysts, maybe one to less than five percent.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Others with no crystals, some with small white phenocrysts, maybe one to less than five percent.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Others with no crystals, some with small white phenocrysts, maybe one to less than five percent.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Similar quartz grains in the granophyric blocks contain primary, 2-phase, vapor-rich fluid inclusions, consistent with vapor saturation during growth of these igneous phenocrysts.
Granophyre.html 1998
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Melt inclusions (n = 21) in euhedral quartz phenocrysts from the pumice contain an average of 2.6 wt. % H2O, 3800 ppm Cl, and 1300 to 5200 ppm
Granophyre.html 1998
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