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quartz porphyry

noun

Definition of quartz porphyry

: a porphyritic extrusive or dike rock in which quartz with more or less corroded crystals and orthoclase and usually mica, amphibole, or pyroxene occur as phenocrysts in a groundmass that is felsophyric, granophyric, or vitrophyric