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What does microgranite mean?

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Noun
  1. A type of microcrystalline plutonic rock with the same composition as granite.
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Seven quarries around the western side of Threlkeld Knotts have worked the microgranite.
The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet.
The later group contain more common basic microgranite xenoliths.
In some cases these dykes connect to small microgranite sills or laccoliths.
The age of the Carrock microgranite provides further evidence that both calc-alkaline and tholeiitic magmas were available during Caradoc magmatism in the Lake District.

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