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What is a granodiorite?

What is a granodiorite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (petrology) An intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase than potassium feldspar.
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The limestones, which have been silicified near the granodiorite contact, have in places been intensely metamorphosed into a typical contact-metasomatic assemblage.
During this time, many of the district's steeply dipping, northeast-trending faults were intruded by narrow, granodiorite porphyry dikes.
Along the southern margin of the intrusion at Sogneskollen, granodiorite apophyses netvein the host rocks.
The Santan Mountains study site is also primarily composed of granodiorite, but the boulders are not as extensive or foliated as in the South Mountains.
The granodiorite deposits at Aswan are often gneissoid in texture, exhibiting parallel orientated feldspar phenocrysts.
Xenoliths in granodiorite of the Alta Stock, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

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