phaneritic
Americanadjective
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Of or relating to an igneous rock in which the crystals are so coarse that individual minerals can be distinguished with the naked eye. Phaneritic rocks are intrusive rocks that cooled slowly enough to allow significant crystal growth.
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Compare aphanitic
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These crystalline changes create identifying textures, which is shown in the figure below comparing the phaneritic texture of igneous granite with the foliated texture of metamorphic gneiss.
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The individual crystals in phaneritic texture are readily visible to the unaided eye.
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The slow cooling process allows crystals to grow large, giving the intrusive igneous rock a coarse-grained or phaneritic texture.
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Explain the difference between aphanitic and phaneritic textures.
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The intrusive rocks shown in Figure 3.13 are all phaneritic, as are those shown in Exercise 3.6.
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