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What does xenocrystic mean?

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  1. Relating to xenocrysts.
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There is also a subpopulation of subrounded xenocrystic zircons, which are slightly more brown than euhedral grains.
Care was taken to sample the middle of the largest intrusion, to avoid contamination by xenocrystic component from the surrounding host rocks.
These are interpreted as xenocrystic cores and are of a similar age to zircon analysed elsewhere in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey.
Many of the intrusions contain veins and irregular patches of xenocrystic hybrid rock and granite.

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