Porcellanite, a very hard, impure, jaspideous rock, frequently met with in the immediate vicinity of intrusive eruptive masses. In most cases porcellanite is simply a highly baked and altered argillaceous rock—shales being frequently converted into porcellanite along their line of junction with an igneous rock.
Porcellanite,
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