A full article on the Alid granophyre is available in the December 1997 issue of the. From Wordnik.com. [Granophyre.html] Reference
Abstracts on origin of granophyre at Alid volcanic center (or photos of granophyre). From Wordnik.com. [The Alid Page] Reference
A-type granophyre and rhyolite from the Alid volcanic center, Eritrea, northeast Africa. From Wordnik.com. [references] Reference
Mount Barney itself is a mountain mass composed of granophyre, about 24 million years old. From Wordnik.com. [Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia] Reference
Blocks of anorthoclase - and clinopyroxene-bearing micorgaphic granophyre (click for photo) were ejected with rhyolitic pumice during a late-Pleistocene eruption at the Alid volcanic center, Eritrea. From Wordnik.com. [Granophyre.html] Reference
In contrast, greater depressurization, degassing, and undercooling would create glasses, fine-grained felsites, and crude granophyres, without the well-crystallized micrographic intergrowths observed at Alid. granophyre, Alid, volatiles, degassing, Eritrea. From Wordnik.com. [Granophyre.html] Reference
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