Two prophories from the Superior Province in Northern Ontario, the rock on the left is a trachyte with centimeter sized feldspar crystals in a very fin grained martix of another feldspar. The rock on the right is an ultramafic gabbro fine grain matrix housing centimenter sized feldspar crystals. Samples courtesy of the Ontario Geological Survey. Photo by J.R. Wakefield (1988)

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