Charnockite
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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 cha
Late-stage charnockite dykes cutting anorthosite, Rogaland, Norway
Job Charnock's Mausoleum at St John's Church compound, Kolkata
Charnockite (porphyritic quartz mangerite), sold as "Nara Brown Granite", quarried in southern Quebec
Charnockite plate from Varberg, Sweden
Job Charnock
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Job Charnock was an English administrator with the East India Company. He is widely regarded by historians as the founder of the city of Calcutta; however, this view was challenged in court, and in 20
Charnockite
…distribution and great importance in India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Africa. It was named by geologist T. H. Holland in 1893 after the tombstone of Job Charnock, in St John's Church in Kolkata, India, which is made of this rock. The charnockite series includes rocks of many different types, some being felsic…
Job Charnock
Plaque with details of Baptism of Charnock's daughters, on Baptismal Font at St. Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras
Sketch of Job Charnock's Cemetery, made before 1742 (p.196), March 1824
Job Charnock's mausoleum