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What is a groundmass?

What is a groundmass? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) The matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded.
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In a basal flow in Moraine Park, the slaggy and compact phases show differences in phenocrysts as well as in groundmass.
These lavas have groundmass textures that vary from almost holo-crystalline to glassy.
The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet.
The groundmass consists mainly of bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.
The wall rock was highly altered and consisted of a groundmass of pyrophyllite and fine-grained pyrite.
The felted or hyalopilitic texture is the most common, and plagioclase is the principal groundmass constituent.

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