porphyritic [A textural term for those igneous rocks in which larger crystals (phenocrysts) are set in a finer groundmass which may be crystalline or glassy, or both] ● porphyrisch
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(2014). porphyritic . In: Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_163019
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