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Kenyte
Type of igneous rock From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kenyte is a type of igneous rock. More specifically, it is a variety of porphyritic phonolite or trachyte with rhomb-shaped phenocrysts of anorthoclase with variable amounts of olivine and augite in a glassy matrix; the glass may be devitrified.[1]

It was originally described and named by J. W. Gregory in 1900 for the occurrence on Mount Kenya.[2][3] Kenyte has also been reported from Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) and Mount Erebus (Antarctica).[4]
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