"phacolith" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1947, Virgil Everett Barnes, Raymond Fillmore Dawson, George Ashworth Parkinson, Building Stones of Central Texas - Volume 19, page 21:",
          "text": "This body is a phacolith intruded along the gneiss-schist boundary in the trough of a syncline that plunges 16° southeast.",
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          "text": "This bedding forms a distinctive stratigraphic sequence that may be traced from phacolith to phacolith throughout an area of 1,200 square miles.",
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          "ref": "2007, Richard Huggett, Fundamentals of Geomorphology, page 120:",
          "text": "Corndon Hill, which lies east of Montgomery in Powys, Wales, is a circular phacolith made of Ordovician dolerite (Figure 5.3b).",
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