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kinzigite

A coarse-grained metamorphic rock of pelitic composition occurring in the granulite facies. Essential minerals are garnet and biotite, with which occur varying amounts of quartz, K-feldspar, oligoclase, muscovite, cordierite, and sillimanite. The name is from Kinzig, Schwarzwald, Germany.

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