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Litchfieldite is a rare igneous rock which is coarse-grained, foliated and a variety of nepheline syenite, sometimes also called as nepheline syenite gneiss or gneissic nepeheline syenite
From its occurrence at Litchfield, Maine, USA
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
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
From the mountain ranges- Mount Kenya and is named by J. W. Gregory in 1900
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock