Meaning Of The Word Pegmatite
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Pegmatite Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Pegmatite?
pegmatite in American English
a light-colored, coarsegrained, intrusive igneous rock, usually granitic, containing large crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and sometimes rare minerals: typically found in fissures of other igneous rocks noun: a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes pegmatite in British English noun: any of a class of exceptionally coarse-grained intrusive igneous rocks consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspar: often occurring as dykes among igneous rocks of finer grain |
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