Figure 5B. Small blob of dark gray rock enclosed by ordinary coarse-grained granite. Some large feldspar grains that had begun to form in the granite became detached from it and drifted into the molten blob of dark magma. (Mosquito Mountain quarry. MGS photo.)

Figure 5A         Figure 5B        

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