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Noun
  1. A green to black amphibole mineral, of complex structure, formed in the late stages of cooling in igneous rock.
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All four samples are medium-grained, and comprise variable proportions of hornblende, feldspar and quartz with accessory biotite and titanite.
It is dominated by variably foliated, medium-grained, even-textured to porphyritic biotite hornblende tonalite and quartz diorite.
In addition some also contain hornblende and epidote, the latter in part replacing biotite.
In most of the intrusion, hornblende and biotite are both present, but occasionally either may constitute the sole mafic phase.
The sample is weakly banded amphibolite-facies gneiss consisting of quartz, plagioclase, biotite and hornblende.
The metabasites typically contain coarse-grained hornblende, biotite and plagioclase with accessory titanite.

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