Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

2009 Edition
| Editors: Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai

variolite

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_22794

a fine-grained igneous rock of diorite clan composed of pea-size globule bodies. Composed of plagioclase, augite, and ilmenite in a groundmass of augite and probably devitrified glass.

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