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Porphyry vs Porphyrite - What's the difference?

porphyry | porphyrite |

As nouns the difference between porphyry and porphyrite

is that porphyry is (geology) a hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix while porphyrite is (mineralogy) a rock with a porphyritic structure.

porphyry

English

Noun

  • (geology) a hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix
  • # A purple-red rock of this kind.
  • #*

    • Derived terms

    * porphyry shell

    porphyrite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) A rock with a porphyritic structure.
    • augite porphyrite
    (Webster 1913)