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aplitic

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ap·lite  (plt) also hap·lite (hplt)
n.
A fine-grained, light-colored granitic rock consisting primarily of orthoclase and quartz.
[German Aplit, from Greek haplous, single; see haploid.]
ap·litic (-pltk) adj.
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Adj.1.aplitic - of or related to aplite
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Porphyry aplite contains occasional, often mantled K-feldspar megacrysts in a fine-grained aplitic matrix.
Surface weathering of rapakivi granite outcrops--implications for ... by Harma, Paavo; Selonen, Olavi / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
The hypersthene diabase grades upward into diabase with variable texture and grain size, and is locally aplitic, granophyric or pegmatitic.
Economic geology models 2. Melt inclusions of native silver and ... by Marshall, Dan / Geoscience Canada
The stocks of the porphyritic K-granites in the Estonian mainland show up as small gravity and magnetic minima (Ereda, Neeme, Naissaare, Taebla, and Kloostri stocks) and comprise pink, medium- to coarse-grained, microcline-megacrystic, partly trachytoid biotite (in Marjamaa and Naissaare also biotitehornblende) syeno- and monzogranitic rock, locally cut by aplitic and microsyenitic dykes (Kuuspalu 1975; Kirs 1986; Soesoo & Niin 1992).
Outlines of the Precambrian basement of Estonia/Eesti eelkambriumi ... by Soesoo, Alvar; Puura, Vaino; Kirs, Juho; Petersell, Valter; Niin, Mati; All, Tarmo / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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