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intersertal
Said of the texture of a porphyritic igneous rock in which the groundmass, composed of a glassy or partly crystalline material other than augite, occupies the interstices between unoriented feldspar laths, the groundmass forming a relatively small proportion of the rock. Compare: hyalophitic; hyalocrystalline.
- Kalbos dalis: adjective
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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