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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
Skarns are formed during regional or contact metamorphism and from a variety of metasomatic processes involving fluids of magmatic, metamorphic, and/or marine origin
From an old Swedish mining term originally used to describe a type of silicate gangue or waste rock.
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock