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Minette (a type of lamprophyre), from Jáchymov in the Czech Republic. Lamprophyres (from Ancient Greek λαμπρός (lamprós) 'bright' and φύρω (phúrō) 'to mix') are uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rocks primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks, and small intrusions.
A feeder dike is a dike that acted as a conduit for magma moving from a magma chamber to a localized intrusion. For example, the Muskox intrusion in arctic Canada was fed by a large dike, with a thickness of 150 meters. [10] A sole injection is a dike injected along a thrust fault plane, where rock beds were fractured and thrust up over younger ...
The sapphire bearing Yogo dike is a dark gray to green intrusive rock known as a lamprophyre. The lamprophyre is an unusual igneous rock that contains a low content of silica . The rock has a porphyritic texture with large crystals of orthopyroxene and phlogopite set in a fine grained matrix .
Lamprophyre from the Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite. Lamprophyre dikes are fairly common in the metamorphic country rocks of the granodiorite, but extremely rare in the massif itself. Unweathered lamprophyres have a dark green to green colour; they are very dense fine-grained rocks that weather in creamy colours.
lamprophyre Igneous rocks usually occurring as dykes intimately related to larger intrusive bodies; characterised by abnormally high contents of coloured silicates, such as biotite, hornblende and augite, and a correspondingly small amount of feldspar, some being feldspar-free. large igneous province
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In 1992, Coffin and Eldholm initially defined the term "large igneous province" as representing a variety of mafic igneous provinces with areal extent greater than 100,000 km 2 that represented "massive crustal emplacements of predominantly mafic (magnesium- and iron-rich) extrusive and intrusive rock, and originated via processes other than 'normal' seafloor spreading."
Definition [ edit ] In evolutionary ecology , an ecotype , [ note 1 ] sometimes called ecospecies , describes a genetically distinct geographic variety, population , or race within a species , which is genotypically adapted to specific environmental conditions.