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Aplite is a fine-grained granite composed mainly of feldspar and quartz
From German Aplit, from Greek haploos simple + -ite
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Shoshonite is a basaltic rock, properly a potassic trachyandesite, composed of olivine, augite and plagioclase phenocrysts in a groundmass with calcic plagioclase and sanidine and some dark-colored volcanic glass
From the place of origin called Shoshone riverin Wyoming
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock