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What does poikilitic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Describing the texture of an igneous rock that has small crystals of one mineral scattered among larger crystals of another
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This is followed by ophitic or poikilitic crystallization of pyroxene and ilmenite about scarce nuclei, produced at lower temperatures.
Large poikilitic hornblende and in some cases plagioclase overgrow the cumulates.
These rocks have doleritic, intergranular and poikilitic texture.
In the southern Siniscola schists, chloritoid and poikilitic garnet porphyroblasts have overgrown the earliest cleavage.

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