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Shoshonite is a basaltic rock, properly a potassic trachyandesite, composed of olivine, augite and plagioclase phenocrysts in a groundmass with calcic plagioclase and sanidine and some dark-colored volcanic glass
From the place of origin called Shoshone riverin Wyoming
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Marl is an unconsolidated sedimentary rock consisting of clay and lime
From Old French marle, from Late Latin marglia
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock