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Porphyritic   /pˌɔrfərˈɪtɪk/   Listen
Porphyritic

adjective
1.
(of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals.



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... susceptible of cultivation. The foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada gradually shut us round, and at Carson we begin penetrating the main system through a series of magnificent galleries between precipices of porphyritic granite, leading nearly northward to the Truckee Pass. The grades we now encounter are as tremendous as any in the Rocky-Mountain system. Just before entering the main pass we come to the junction of a branch-road ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various


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