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What is a pegmatite?

What is a pegmatite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A coarsely crystalline igneous or plutonic rock composed primarily of feldspar and quartz, normally with muscovite and/or biotite mica.
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This band, composed of pyroxenite and gabbro, is sandwiched between a peridotite intrusion to the north and a band of pegmatite to the South.
Beryl, columbite, and triphylite are common accessory minerals in the Estes pegmatite, especially in the coarse-grained layers.
The pegmatite is composed of microcline, plagioclase and quartz with minor amounts of clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, ilmenite and zircon.
Large anhedral masses of yttrian fluorite, measuring to several feet across, were found at the White Cloud pegmatite.
She notes that lime-green to purplish-green modified fluorite octahedra have been found at this pegmatite.
They described a distorted 5.5 x 4-cm dodecahedral crystal of genthelvite from a small pegmatite near Stove Mountain.

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