How To Use andesite In A Sentence
- Both the sandstone and andesite show strong quartz and chert veining and carry disseminated pyrite.
- Nevado del Ruiz volcano is an andesite stratovolcano located in the northern Andes of Colombia.
- The belt comprises subalkaline andesites, trachyandesites, dacites, rhyolites, trachyrhyolites, and granodiorites, granites, granosyenites and monzonites, and developed along an active continental margin.
- Some rocks have basaltic compositions similar to the well-studied meteorites thought to have come from Mars, but other rocks are more like the volcanic rock andesite.
- St. Lucia, and Martinique are predominantly composed of acid andesite and dacitic rocks. Grenada
- (FeCO3), used as a pigment, and also found in the Kirtland shale; and various metamorphic and igneous rocks (such as andesite, schist, gabbro, slate, and olivine), which could have been picked up in the river Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
- Andesite and diorite are intermediate igneous rocks that have a chemistry between mafic and felsic (silica amounts between 53 to 65%). Igneous rock
- The rock assemblages of the Bayinbuluke formation are mainly alkaline basalt - thick andesite - alkaline rhyolite.
- The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs.
- Floral mapping of the nominated area recognizes 5 broad communities including the dolomite grasslands, andesite mountain bushveld, witwatersrand mountain bushveld, VD granite grassland and the riverine bushland. Vredefort Dome, South Africa
