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Ayla-Axum fabric |
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Visual characteristicsHard buff or reddish fabric with visible quartz grains. Surface often somewhat paler or whitened. |
PetrologyFrequent ill-sorted angular to subangular grains of quartz, large discrete grains of plagioclase and potash feldspar, strands of muscovite mica together with larger grains of biotite, occasional grains of pyroxene and amphibole and fragments of a granitic rock (Williams, 2000). |