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Composition Key Phaneritic Igneous Rocks

Bowen's Reaction Series Percent Abundance Chart


Color/Texture Key Igneous Home Page
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ORTHOCLASE Pinkish, ALKALIGRANITE
>PLAGIOCLASE Reddish
MAFICS
<10%
PLAGIOCLASE White-ish,
QU A R T Z >ORTHOCLASE light gray,
PLAGIOGRANITE
(TONOLITE)

> 20% MAFICS PLAGIOCLASE "Salt&Pepper"


Light colored rocks GRANODIORITE
10-25% ORTHOCLASE white>black

Quartz 0-5%
pinkish SYENITE
ORTHOCLASE Plag. 0-35%
65-100% Mafics < 1 0 % Quartz
5-20% QTZ. SYENITE
F EL D - Quartz 0-5%
S PA RS white-ish MONZONITE
80-100% Ortho 10-35%
Mafics <10% Quartz QTZ.
PLAGIOCLASE 5-20% MONZONITE
35-100%
Plagio. >90% Pyroxene
mid-dark gray <10% ANORTHOSITE

MMAAFFIICCSS/ Light colored AMPHIBOLE & "Salt&Pepper"


DIORITE
PLPALG•
PLAGIOCLASE BIOTITE black white

AIOGCILOA-SE
•CLASE PYROXENE;
Dark Gray Drk gray or
5 0 /5 0 % PLAGIOCLASE rare Olivine brown-gray GABBRO

PYROXENE OLIVINE Drk green, or


60-100% 0-40 % brown; black PYROXENITE
MAFICS OLIVINE PYROXENE Light to dark
90-100% 40 - 90 % 10-60% green PERIDOTITE
Dark colored rocks
OLIVINE Pale green Blk Chromite
> 90 % glassy grains crystals typ. DUNITE

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