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Mg-rich Andesite

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Adakite

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Olivine rich basalt

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Picrite

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Quartz Monzonite

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Adamellite

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Olivine Basalt where Aug>Ol

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Ankaramite

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K-rich Basalt

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Soshonite

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Hydrous volcanic glass (>10%)

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pitchstone

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Leuco-Tonalite

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Trondjehmite

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Olivine rich Gabbro

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Troctolite

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Tholeiitic Basalt or Magma series

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Tholeiite

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Altered Albitized Basalt

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Spilite

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Alkaline plutonic with Kfs, foid and Augite

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Shonkinite

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Broken up pumice

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Reticulite

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Felsic plutonic granite like rocks which generic in term

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Granitoid

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Porphyritic granite with granophyric texture

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Granophyre

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Applied to welded tuffs

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ignimbrite

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Clinopyroxene nephelinite

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Ijolite

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Nepheline bearing basalt

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Nephelinite

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Orthopyroxene Gabbro

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Norite

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volcanic glass typically silicic

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obsidian

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Orthopyroxene Granodiorite

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Opdalite

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Oceanite

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Picrite

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Orbite

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Lamprophyre

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Peralkine Rhyolite

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Pantellerite

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Volcanic glass that exhibits concentric cracking

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Perlite

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Orthoclase bearing orthopyroxene gabbro
Monzonorite
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Mafic sodic Trachyandesite
Mugearite
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Ultramafic melilite-clinopx volcanic
Meliltite
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Orthopyroxene monzonite
Mangerite
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Nepeheline monzo-gabbro/dirorite
Essexite
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Medium grained basalt or gabbro
Dolerite/Diabase
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igneous rock with >50% carbonates
Carbonatite
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Orthopyroxene Granite
Charnockite
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Orthopyroxene Monzonorite
Jotunite
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UM rock with 90% hornblende
Hornblendite
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Volatile rich Ultramafic
Kimberlite
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Ultramafic Volcanic(mostly archean) wt.%MgO>18, %TiO2<1
Komatiite
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A diverse group of dark porphyritic mafic to ultramafic K-rich hypabyssal rocks
Lamprophyre
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A group of K-Mg volatile-rich volcanics
Lamproite
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volacnic rock that is nearly all leucite
Leucitite
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Rhyolite
Liparite
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Olivine Tephrite
Basanite
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Mg rich andesite or Basaltic Andesite (wt%MgO>8%,TiO5<0.5%)
Boninite
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Alkali feldspar rich metasomatic rockassociated with Carbonatites
Fenite
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Gabbro with supequao amounts of clinopx and orthopx
Gabbronorite
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Hornblende Lamprophyre
Camptonite
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Leucotonalite in oceanic setting
Plagiogranite
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Coarse calcite carbonatite
sovite
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Hbl-di- plag lamprophyre
Spessartite
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Analcime Gabbro
Teschenite
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Nepheline Gabbro
Theralite
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Hbl-di-phlog lamprophyre
Vogesite
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glassy ol-di-phlog lamproite
Verite
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coarse dolomitic carbonatite
Rauhaugite
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Labradorite, Augite and Diallage
Normal Gabbro
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Gabbro in which hypersthene predominates over clino px
Norites
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both kinds of px are present but the plagioclase is more calcic than Labradorite
Eucrites
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Increase in Ol content as collective term to rocks of olivine - gabbros, eucrites and norites which composed solely of olivine and labradorite r bytownite
Troctolites
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essentially olivine and anorthite
Allivalites
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Alkaline troctolites or Oligoclase Basalt
Mugearite
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German name for Troctolite because of its vivid red, brown, yellow and green spots which literally means trout rock
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