Migmatite
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Metamorphic rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Medium (2.5 to 3.2)
- Occurs in
- Metamorphic rocks
- Foliation
- Gneissic (coloured bands)
- Colour
- White, Grey, Black, Pink
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Migmatite means mixed rock, from the Greek migma, a mixture.
- It records rock that began to melt deep in the crust but never fully liquefied: pale melted veins in a darker host.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q744630 · All stones · All entries