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21.1 Porphyritic rhyolite. Churchill County, Nevada.  Pink, granular aphanitic matrix encloses gray, glassy quartz phenocrysts and a few white alkali feldspar (sanidine -?) phenocrysts. Sample courtesy of Sonoma State University Geology Department. [Scale shows cm divisions.]
21.1 Porphyritic rhyolite. Churchill County, Nevada. Pink, granular aphanitic matrix encloses gray, glassy quartz phenocrysts and a few white alkali feldspar (sanidine -?) phenocrysts. Sample courtesy of Sonoma State University Geology Department. [Scale shows cm divisions.]

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