I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Sweden the main porphyry supplier is/was Älvdalen, Dalarna.
I heard it's the place with the most porphyry in the world but I don't know if that's just the locals exaggerating.
Rhyolite Porphyry is an intrusive rock, formed from the slow cooling of magma underground. It is characterized by large crystals (phenocrysts) surrounded by a fine-grained matrix.
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very slowley
beneath earth's surface
Two types of igneous rock are intrusive (also called plutonic) and extrusive. There is also porphyry rock which is partly intrusive and partly extrusive. Porphyry rock has large crystals embedded in a mass of much smaller crystals. The large crystals formed underground as does intrusive rock, and were carried in lava when it erupted. The mass of smaller crystals formed around the large crystals when the lava cooled quickly above ground, as does extrusive rock.
Porphyry of Gaza was born in 347.
Porphyry is a type of granite that comes in various colors, that the Egyptians were known to appreciate carving things like coffins in. A stone coffin carved of porphyry is a porphyry sarcophagus.
Porphyry of Gaza died on 420-02-26.
Porphyry can be either extrusive or intrusive. Extrusive porphyry forms from lava that cools quickly on the Earth's surface, while intrusive porphyry forms from magma that cools more slowly beneath the surface. Both types of porphyry have distinctive large crystals (phenocrysts) embedded in a fine-grained matrix.
Rhyolite Porphyry is an intrusive rock, formed from the slow cooling of magma underground. It is characterized by large crystals (phenocrysts) surrounded by a fine-grained matrix.
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Naturally. It was formed at first by Aristotle who was an excellent logician. The taxonomy is for example based on his Categories appended by the Isagoge (Introduction) of Neo-platonic philosopher Porphyry.
its igenoeus
very slowley
Porphyry cooled slowly, allowing large crystals to form within a fine-grained matrix. This slow cooling process gives porphyry its characteristic appearance of large crystals embedded in a finer grained groundmass.
Mostly feldspar and quartz