Porphyry Igneous Rocks
Rocks are said to be porphyritic if their groundmass is finegrained ar aphanitic and porphyraceous if their groundmass in visible to the naked eye. Hence, rhyolite and basalt as finegrained volcanic rocks are porphyritic and granite, syenite, etc. as coarsegrained plutonic rocks are porphyraceous. Phenocrysts that make up porphyry should be ...