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thumb|300px|right| Late-stage charnockite dike (geology)|dykes cutting [[anorthosite, Rogaland, Norway]] thumb|Job Charnock's Mausoleum at St John's Church compound, [[Kolkata]]

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Contents
  • Charnockite series
  • Composition
  • Gallery
  • Geology
  • Distribution
  • Age
  • See also
  • References

thumb|300px|right| Late-stage charnockite dike (geology)|dykes cutting [[anorthosite, Rogaland, Norway]] thumb|Job Charnock's Mausoleum at St John's Church compound, [[Kolkata]]

Charnockite () is any orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock formed at high temperature and pressure, commonly found in granulite facies’ metamorphic regions, sensu stricto as an endmember of the charnockite series.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “charnockite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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