It can be identified in metamorphic rocks by its swiss cheese appearance ( with poikilitic quartz ) and often mantled porphyroblastic character.
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Typical examples of metamorphic rocks include porphyroblastic schists where large, oblate minerals form an alignment either due to growth or rotation in the groundmass.
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Upon cessation of metamorphism, the sulfides may inherit a sheared texture, and typically develop bright, equigranular to globular aggregates of porphyroblastic pentlandite crystals known colloquially as " fish scales ".