Look up: granulite

1. Granulite
   Gran'u·lite noun [ From Granule .] (Geol.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
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2. granulite
   <geology> A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite. ... Origin: From Granule. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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3. Granulite
   • (n.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
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4. granulite
   (from the article `metamorphic rock`) ...diopside, and plagioclase; in general, these minerals form relatively equant crystals and hence do not develop a preferred orientation. The ... ...of oceanic crust and island arcs (long, curved island chains associated with intense volcanic and seismic activity) that formed during the early ... ...
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5. granulite
   granulite A coarse-grained metamorphic rock in which the minerals are of roughly equal size.
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6. Granulite
   Granulite is a whitish, granular metamorphic rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed. Granulite is formed deep in the Earth's crust at very high temperature and under high pressures. It is sometimes called whitestone or leptynite.
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7. Granulite
   composition, with garnet porphyroblasts `Granulites` are medium to coarse–grained metamorphic rocks that have experienced high temperature metamorphism, composed mainly of feldspars sometimes associated with quartz and anhydrous ferromagnesian minerals, with granoblastic texture and gneissose...
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