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pórfido trapense

English translation: trap-porphyry

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Spanish term or phrase:	pórfido trapense
English translation:	trap-porphyry
Entered by:	Lesley Clarke

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19:14 Apr 12, 2004

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Science - Archaeology / Mexico

Spanish term or phrase: pórfido trapense

I have found porphyry for pórfido, but I can't find trapense.
This is an article about the Aztec calendar stone.

Sigue a León y Gama, aunque difiere en lo relativo al material deen que está hecha la escultura, pues para Humboldt se trata de un ***pórfido trapense*** gris negruzco, de una waka basáltica con feldespatos vítreos y hojuelas de mica; en lo que se refiere a la interpretación de los grabados, coincide en que el círculo central representa al Sol en sus cuatro movimientos.

Lesley Clarke KudoZ activity Questions: 427 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 953 Mexico
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trappean porphyry

Explanation:
Porphyry is a purple stone/rock.
Trappean is a derivative of TRAP (IGNEOUS ROCKS)
I don't know much about rocks but take a look here, it might be helpful, it explains porphyry and trappean rocks:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/livingstone_d/mission...

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\"It would be easy to multiply examples and authorities to prove the gradation of
the Plutonic into the trap rocks. On the western side of the Fiord of
Christiania, in Norway, there is a large district of trap, chiefly greenstone-
porphyry and syenitic-greenstone, resting on fossiliferous strata. To this, on
its southern limit, succeeds a region equally extensive of syenite, the passage
from the trappean to the crystalline Plutonic rock being so gradual that it is
impossible to draw a line of demarkation between them\"

http://capricorn.lunarpages.com/~btech02/sgbook/sg31.html
http://www.crocoite.com/mainadit/cygnet.htm

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4 +1	trappean porphyry	xxxx-Translator
3	porphyritic rock	Terry Ogborn

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pórfido trapense

trappean porphyry

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Thanks very much to both of you. Thanks to your help I've found an acceptable answer.

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pórfido porphyritic rock

Explanation:
"trappean porphyritic rock" might be even better - please see the reference I've given. It makes things clearer I think.

Reference: http://www.bartleby.com/65/po/porphyry.html

Terry Ogborn
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