charnockite
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thumb|300px|right| Late-stage charnockite dike (geology)|dykes cutting [[anorthosite, Rogaland, Norway]] thumb|Job Charnock's Mausoleum at St John's Church compound, [[Kolkata]]
Charnockite () is any orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock formed at high temperature and pressure, commonly found in granulite facies’ metamorphic regions, sensu stricto as an endmember of the charnockite series.
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