"' Nepheline syenite "'is a holocrystalline plutonic rock that consists largely of nepheline and alkali feldspar.
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A granulite may be visually quite distinct with abundant small pink or red pyralspite garnets in a'granular'holocrystalline matrix.
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The Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Information Catalog, 1973, describes it as a " holocrystalline, equigranular basalt containing some poikilitic plagioclase ".
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The dolerite is coarse grained in the main, often equigranular and holocrystalline although porphyritic areas are known and chilled margins and occasional compositional variations are noted.
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The word " granite " comes from the Latin " granum ", a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock.