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What is a groundmass?

What is a groundmass? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (geology) The matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded.
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Orthoclase occurred as remnant phenocrysts in a groundmass of chloritic material resulting from alteration of iron-rich felsite cobbles.
The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet.
The felted or hyalopilitic texture is the most common, and plagioclase is the principal groundmass constituent.
The maximum length of most microbes in Group II could not be measured accurately because they are tightly embedded in the silica groundmass.
The groundmass consists mainly of bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.
In all specimens the groundmass is peppered with opaque minerals, rare apatite laths and rare euhedral blade-like calcite.

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