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microlitic
Said of the texture of a porphyritic igneous rock in which the groundmass is composed of an aggregate of differently oriented or parallel microlites in a glassy or cryptocrystalline mesostasis.
- Part of Speech: adjective
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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