In geology, enderbite is an igneous rock of the charnockite series, consisting essentially of quartz, antiperthite (or perthite), orthopyroxene (usually hypersthene) and magnetite, and is equivalent to an orthopyroxene bearing tonalite.[1] It is named for its occurrence in Enderby Land, Antarctica.
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edit- Classification of igneous rocks, 2nd edition, 2002, by R.W. Le Maitre et al.
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