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Figure 1
 

Figure 1.

Outcrop photographs of the Cathedral Peak Granodiorite and El Capitan Granite, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. In spite of largely equivalent mineral proportions, one is termed a granite and the other a granodiorite. This confusion is lessened if name boundaries are considered fuzzy rather than sharp. Pennies are 2 cm in diameter.

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