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Pantellerite

Pantellerite logo #10101) Volcanic rock
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Pantellerite

Pantellerite logo #21000 Pantellerite is a peralkaline rhyolite. It has a higher iron and lower aluminium composition than comendite. It is named after Pantelleria, a volcanic island in the Strait of Sicily and the type location for this rock. On Pantelleria the rock is usually found as a vitrophyre containing phenocrysts of anorthoclase or sanidine. Quartz is found only ...
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pantellerite

pantellerite logo #21003(from the article `rhyolite`) ...or alkali amphibole is the principal dark mineral, oligoclase will be rare or absent, and the feldspar phenocrysts will consist largely or ...
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