A fine-grained granite porphyry having a groundmass with irregular intergrowths of quartz and feldspar.
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An igneous rock similar to granite in composition and appearance, but containing larger crystals of quartz and feldspar in a matrix of a finer grain.
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A fine-grained igneous rock that has large intergrown crystals of quartz and feldspar in the matrix.
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Origin of granophyre
German Granophyrgrano-grano-(Por)phyrporphyry (from Medieval Latin porphyriumporphyry)
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Granophyre Sentence Examples
Another granite area appears on the south side of the road between Brodick and Shiskine, where it is associated with granophyre and quartz-diorite and traverses the volcanic vent of post-Cretaceous or Tertiary age already described.
In pegmatite (graphic granite) and granophyre it often forms a regular intergrowth with felspar.
F. Magma is intruded into older rocks and crystallizes into a pink igneous rock called granophyre.
A. The overlying rocks are eroded until the pink granophyre is exposed at the earth's surface.
Granophyre, because the conglomerate and quartz sandstone lie on top of it and the conglomerate contains some pebbles of granophyre.