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    Esterellite (or Estérellite) is a porphyritic variety of quartz-bearing microdiorite, containing phenocrysts of quartz, zoned andesine, and hornblende...
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    Henry Hatch in 1909 to exposures near the village of Markfield, England. Esterellite is a local name for microdiorite given by Auguste Michel-Lévy to exposures...
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    1319A. doi:10.1093/petrology/egs018. Thomas, Pierre (May 2016). "Dacite (Esterellite)". Observer les objets géologiques (in French). Lithothèque ENS de Lyon...
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    composition, with different conditions of crystallization. He named "esterellite" to the blue porphyry of Estérel in 1896. Auguste MICHEL-LEVY (1844-1911)...
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    at formed by the cobbles left over from sixty years of quarrying of Esterellite. It was dubbed the "quarry beach". Clarke & Smith (1993), pp. 105–107...
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    contain abnormal constituents such as calcite, sillimanite or corundum. Esterellite Flett 1911, p. 236.  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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