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Kenyte
Kenyte

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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
 
Novaculite is a dense, hard, fine-grained, siliceous metamorpic rock which is a type of chert that breaks with conchoidal fracture
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Unknown
From Latin word novacula, for razor stone
Sedimentary Rocks
Durable Rock, Hard Rock
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Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock