glomeroporphyritic
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glomeroporphyritic (not comparable)
- (geology) Describing porphyritic igneous rock in which phenocrysts are clustered in irregular groups.
- 2012, Francesco Stoppa, Updates in Volcanology, page 106:
- Often, glomeroporphyritic joints of plagioclase or pyroxenes with titanmagnetites are found.