glomeroporphyritic
glomeroporphyritic Applied to those phenocrysts which have attached together to form clusters set within a finer-grained groundmass. The phenocryst clusters can form by the aggregation of separate crystals suspended in a melt or by partial disaggregation of crystal accumulations on the walls of the magma chamber.
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