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24 Chapter2 ‘Table 2-1 Common Rock Names, with IUGS Recommended Terms in Bold Print Name Approximate Meaning ‘Name Approximate Meaning Adakite Mg-rich andesite Katungite K-rich olivine melilitite Adamellite Quartz Monzonite Keratophyre Albitized felsie volcanic Andesite Ankaramite Anorthosite Aplite Basalt Basanite Beforsite Benmoreite Boninite Camptonite Cancalite Carbonatite Cedricite Charnockite Comendite Cortlandite Dacite Diabase Diorite Dolerite Dunite Enderbite Essexite Febsite Fenite Fergusite Fitzroyite (Foid)ite (Foid)otite Fourchite Fortunite Foyaite Gabbro Glimmerite Granite Grani Granodiorite Granophyre: Gravinite Grennaite Harrisite Harzburgite Hawaiite Hornblendite Hyaloclastite Ieelandite Ignimbrite Tjolite Talite Tacupirangite Jotunite Sumillite Kalsilitire Kamafugite Leuco-(alkali feldspar) granite Melilite lamprophyre (Tl. 19-6) Med.- to fine-grained calcite carbonatite Figs. 2-3 and 2-4 Olivine basalt Fig. 22 Granitoid with fine sugary texture Figs. 23 and 24 Olivine tephrite (Tb1. 19-1) Dolomite carbonatite ‘Trachyte (Fig. 14.2) Me-tich andesite Homblende lamprophyre (TOL 19-6) Enstatite sanidine phlogopite lamproite (Tol 19:5) > 50% carbonate Diopside leucite lamproite (Tl. 19-5) Orthopyroxenc granite Peralkaline rhyolite Pyroxene-olivine hornblendite Figs, 23 and 2-4 Medium-grained basaltigabbro, Fig. 22 Medium-grained basaltigabbro, Fig.22 Hypersthene tonalite [Nepheline monzo-gabbro\diorite Microcrystalline granitoid Alkali feldspar-rich metasomatie rock associ- ated with carbonatites Pseudolucite (foid)ite Leucite-phlog.lamproite (Tbl. 19.5) Fig 2-3 Replace “foid” with the actual Fig.2-2_feldspathoid name Matic analeime lamprophyre Glassy olivine famproite (TL 19-5) Nepheline syenite Fig. 22 Biotite-rich ultramafic Fig. 22 else Plutonic (granite-tike) rock Fig. 22 Porphyritic granite with granophyric texture Phonolitic nephelinite Nepheline syenite Troviolite Fig. 22 Soic trachybasalt (Fig. 14-2) Ultramafic rack 90% hornblende Pyroclastic rock = angular glass fragments Al-poor, Fe-ich andesite “Applied to welded tufts Clinopyroxene nephelinite (Tbl. 19-1) Glass-bearing leucititolite Alkaline pyroxenite Hypersthene monzonorite Olivine madupitie lamproite (Tb. 19.5) Kalsilite-rich mafic voleanic (Tbl. 19-1) Collective term for the group: KAtungite-MA Furite-Ugandite Ladogalite Lamproite Lamprophyre Liparite Lusulianite Madupite Mafurite Malchite Malignite Manilite ‘Mangerite Marianite Marienbergite Masafuerite Meimechite Malilitite Melteigite Miagite ‘Monchiquite Monzonite Monzonorite Mugearite Natrocarbonatite Nelsonite Nephelinite Nephilinolite Nosdmarkite Norite Obsidian Oceanite Oainive Opdalite Orbite Orendite Orvietite Osehitite Pantellerite Pegmatite Peridotite Perlite Biotite-plag. lamprophyre (Tol. 19-6) Volatile-rich ultramafic (Tl. 19-1) Ultramatic voleanic (mostly Archean) Olivine meliitoite Mafie alkali feldspar syenite. A group of K-, Mg., volatile-righ volcanics (To1.29-1) A diverse group of dark, porphyriti, mafic to ‘ultramafic K-tich hypabyssal rocks (Tol. 191 Augite syenite-monzonite Fig. 23 Voleanic rock that is nearly all eucite Fig. 2-2 Volcanic = pyroxene + olivine + opaques in a slassy groundmass Rhyolite Porphyritic granite with tourmaline Lamproite with poikiltie phlogopite ground- mass (Tol. 19-5) Alkaline ultramafic voleanie Lamprophyre ‘Aegirine-augite nepheline syenite Leucite-richterite lamproite (Tb. 19-5) Hypersthene monzonite Mectich andesite Natrolite phonotite, Picrite basalt Ultramatic voleanic Ultramatic melilite-clinopyroxene voleanic (bl. 19-1) Plutonic meiilitite Mafiejolite Orbicular gabbro Folsic biotite-nepheline monzosyenite Biotiticlamprophyre (Tbl. 19-6) Mafic type of eucite (foidyite Feldspar-free lamprophyre (Tbl. 19-6) Fig. 2-2 ‘Orthoclase-bearing hypersthene gabbro Mafie sodic trachyandesite (Fig. 14-2) Rare sodic carbonatite volcanic Imenite-apatite dike rock Nepheline-beating basalt (Tb. 19-1) Plutonic nephelinite (a foidite) Quartz bearing alkali feldspar syenite Orthopyroxene gabbro Volcanic glass (typically silicic) Picrite Lamprophyre Hypersthene granogiorite Lamprophyre Di-sanidine-phlog. lamproite (TDI. 19-5) ‘Volcanic near the tephri-phonolite — phono- tephrite border (Fig, 2-4) Ultramatic lamprophyre Peralkaline thyotite (Tol. 19-1) Very coarse-grained igneous rock Fig 22 Volcanic glass that exhibite fine concentric cracking Table 2-1 Continued Classification and Nomenclature of Igneous Rocks Name Approximate Meaning Name Approximate Meaning Phonolite Figs. 23 and 2-4 Tachylite Basaltic glass Phono-tephrite Fig. 2-3 Tabitite Hatiyne tephri-phonolite Picrite Olivine-rich basalt (Fig. 142) Tephrite Fig. 23 and TbL. 19-1 Picrobasalt Fi Tephri-phonolite Fig. 2 Pitchstone Hydrous volcanic glass ‘Teschenite Analcime gabbro Plagiocla Anorthosite ‘Theralite Nepheline gabbro Plagiogranite __Leucotonalite Thoteiite ‘Tholeitic basalt or magma series (See. 87) Polzenite Melilte lamprophyre (Tbl. 19-6) Tonalite Fig. 22 Pyroxenite Fig. Figs.2-3 and 2-4 Quartaolite Fig. Olivine-rich gabbro (Fig. 2-2) Rauhaugite Coarse dotomitic carbonatite (To. 19-2) ‘Trohdhjemite —_Leuco-tonalite Reticulite Broken-up pumice Uncompahgrite Pyroxene melilitolite Rhyolite Figs. 2-3 and 2-4, Felsic nephilinolite (Tl 19-1) Sannaite ‘Na-amph-augite lamprophyre (Tbl. 19-6) Glassy ol-ci-phlog, lamproite (Tol 19-5) Sanukite Mgrtich andesite See orvietite Scoria Highly vesiculated basalt Vogesite ‘Hbl-di-orthocl. lamprophyre (Tbl. 19-6) Shonki Alkaline plutonic with Kt, foid, and augite Websterite Fig.2.2 Shoshonite K-rich basalt (Tb. 19.1) Wehrlite Fig. 22 Sévite Coarse calcite carbonatite (Tol. 19-2) Woldigite Dileucite-richterite madupidic lamproite Spessartite Hbl-di-plag, lamprophyre (Thi. 19-6) (Table 19-5) Spitite Altered albitized basalt ‘Wyomingite Di-loucite-phlog, lamproite (Tol. 19-5) Fig. 22

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