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What is a lamprophyre?

What is a lamprophyre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) An uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rock primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks and small intrusions.
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It has also been found in silica-poor igneous rocks, such as syenite, nepheline syenite, serpentinite, and lamprophyre.
It is supposed that they did not crystallize in the lamprophyre dike but in some way were caught up by it.
Each variety of lamprophyre may and often does contain all four minerals but is named according to the two which preponderate.
Melts of these metasomites were volatile rich and hence ascended rapidly through the lithosphere, forming the lamprophyre magmas.
Remelting of these metasomites produced the Gardar lamprophyre magmas.
Reflection events were identified which could be attributed to known fracture zones and lamprophyre dykes.

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