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    Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at...
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    Nepheline syenite is a holocrystalline plutonic rock that consists largely of nepheline and alkali feldspar. The rocks are mostly pale colored, grey or...
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  • history. The story then follows three female orogenes (Essun, Damaya, and Syenite) from across the Stillness. Essun is a middle-aged woman with two young...
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    Outer Coarse Syenite, the Nepheline Sodalite Syenite, the Fire Tower Syenite, the Garland Peak Syenite, the Watson Ledge Quartz Syenite, and the Interior...
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    Syenite is an unincorporated community in southern St. Francois County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies on Missouri Route DD, west of...
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    coarse-grained, foliated variety of nepheline syenite, sometimes called nepheline syenite gneiss or gneissic nepeheline syenite. Litchfieldite is composed of two...
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  • alkali feldspar – a plutonic rock with <5% normative quartz Nepheline syenite – Holocrystalline plutonic rock – A silica-undersaturated plutonic rock...
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  • Thumbnail for Concord Gabbro-Syenite Complex
    Concord Gabbro-Syenite Complex is a paleozoic pluton located in North Carolina. The complex is mainly composed of gabbro and syenite and is of the Silurian-Devonian...
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    enriched with silica and alkali metals. It is the volcanic equivalent of syenite. Trachyte is common wherever alkali magma is erupted, including in late...
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    exposures of the Beemerville Alkaline Complex consist of two large nepheline syenite plutons; a nearby diatreme (Rutan Hill); and several other nearby and much...
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  • Kishangarh, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age. Kishangarh Nepheline Syenite is among the 32 National Geological Monuments in India notified by Geological...
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  • varieties of syenite, diorite, gabbro, etc., in which feldspathoid minerals occur, and indeed there are many transitions between syenites of ordinary type...
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  • minerals. For example, a syenite with significant nepheline present can be termed a nepheline-bearing syenite or nepheline syenite, with the term nepheline...
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    The exposed laccolith atop a massive pluton system near Sofia, formed by the Vitosha syenite and Plana diorite domed mountains and later uplifted...
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    minerals are calcium carbonate (limestone), building stone, nepheline syenite, olivine, iron, titanium, and nickel. In 2017, the Government Pension Fund...
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    article incorporates public domain material from Feldspar and nepheline syenite (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
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    metamorphic terranes. It also occurs in low-silica igneous syenite and nepheline syenite intrusives. Other occurrences are as masses adjacent to ultramafic...
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  • historical petrological name for a pyroxene-melanite bearing nepheline syenite variety which contains nepheline-alkali feldspar pseudomorphs interpreted...
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    feldspathoid-bearing monzonite. Rock richer in alkali feldspar is classified as syenite, while rock richer in plagioclase is termed a monzodiorite. The volcanic...
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    composition of granite while nepheline syenite pegmatite is a pegmatite with the composition of nepheline syenite. However, the British Geological Survey...
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    Illimaussaq alkaline complex consists of pegmatites such as nepheline, syenites (especially kakortokite or naujaite) and sodalite (sodalite-foya). In Ivittuut...
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    nepheline syenites. Its name alludes to its ready solubility in acid. Eudialyte was first described in 1819 for an occurrence in nepheline syenite of the...
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    suite (emplaced approximately 3.5–3.2 Ga), and the granite–monzogranite–syenite granite (GMS) suite (emplaced approximately 3.2–3.1 Ga). The GMS suite...
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    Maria Konopnicka Monument (Polish: Pomnik Marii Konopnickiej) is a syenite statue in Warsaw, Poland, within the Saxon Garden in the Downtown district...
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    of alkali feldspar. Granitic rocks poorer in quartz are classified as syenites or monzonites, while granitic rocks dominated by plagioclase are classified...
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    Parashi stock (of tonalite) in La Guajira Department, Colombia stocks of syenite in the Caldera de Tejeda on Gran Canaria Ailsa Craig granitic boss, which...
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    rocks. Its coarse grained (phaneritic) intrusive equivalent is nepheline syenite. Phonolite is typically fine grained and compact. The name phonolite comes...
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    banks of the Maritsa River. The city has historically developed on seven syenite hills, some of which are 250 metres (820 feet) high. Because of these hills...
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    Great West Notch and the Kibo Barranco. The former exposes intrusions of syenite. Kibo has five main lava formations: Phonotephrites and tephriphonolites...
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    built in the region, a particular type of granite is used called nepheline syenite. It is fine grained and has also been used in historic monuments like the...
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