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Kenyte
Kenyte
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Hornfels
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Kenyte is a variety of porphyritic phonolite or trachyte rock with rhomb shaped phenocrysts of anorthoclase with variable olivine and augite in a glassy matrix
Mount Kenya
J. W. Gregory
From the mountain ranges- Mount Kenya and is named by J. W. Gregory in 1900
Igneous Rocks
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
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Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
 
Hornfels is a metamorphic rock formed by the contact between mudstone or other clay rich rock, and a hot igneous body, and represents a heat altered equivalent of the original rock
New Zealand
Unknown
From German which means hornstone
Metamorphic Rocks
Durable Rock, Soft Rock
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Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock