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Pantellerite is a peralkaline rhyolite. It has a higher iron and lower aluminium composition than comendite
From Pantelleria, a volcanic island in the Strait of Sicily
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Adamellite is a coarse-grained porphyritic igneous rock, a variety of Monzogranite and dominated by phenocrysts of orthoclase in a granular groundmass of perthite, plagioclase and quartz
From German adamellit and from Monte Adamello, a mountain in Italy, its locality
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock