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Nepheline Syenite is a holocrystalline plutonic rock resembling syenite but containing nepheline and lacking quartz
From origin of a Palaeozoic nepheline syenite from northern Shanxi Province, China
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Dacite is a volcanic igneous rock which is rintermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite
Romania and Moldova, Europe
From Dacia, a province of the Roman Empire which lay between the Danube River and Carpathian Mountains where the rock was first described
Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock