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dacite

NOUN
  1. a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals

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  • Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
  • The belt comprises subalkaline andesites, trachyandesites, dacites, rhyolites, trachyrhyolites, and granodiorites, granites, granosyenites and monzonites, and developed along an active continental margin.
  • The lopolith lies with complete discordance upon plutonic and metamorphic rocks of complicated structural and metamorphic history, and is overlain concordantly by rhyodacite tuffs which are intruded by the granophyre and are in turn overlain concordantly by sedimentary rocks.
  • The 2009 drilling program identified widespread gold mineralization associated with mineralized and altered dacite porphyry and adjacent sedimentary and volcanic rocks, drill hole DDH09-014 revealed gold mineralization of 111 meters grading up to 7.28 grams/tonne. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Dacite and granodiorite contain slightly more biotite and amphibole minerals than granite and rhyolite. Igneous rock
  • The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs.
  • The canyon is carved out of dacite, and there are some large trees with yellow and green leaves.
  • Rhyolite and dacite are produced from continental lava flows that solidify quickly. Igneous rock
  • The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs.
  • An intrusive complex of dacite with sedimentary and metamorphic rocks of Palaeozoic age comprise the predominant rock forms. Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
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