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Quartz porphyry

Boulder of Quartz-Feldspar-Porphyry, from the Drumadoon Sill, south-west Arran, Buteshire


The rock can be easily examined in boulders on the foreshore - the large crystals (phenocrysts) of quartz and feldspar are visible within a much more fine-grained groundmass.

 

DSC01967; GBCurry

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