Latite is an igneous, volcanic rock, with aphanitic-aphyric to aphyric-porphyritic texture. It is the volcanic equivalent of monzonite. Its mineral assemblage...
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enriched in alkali metal oxides. Quartz latite is intermediate between latite and rhyolite in its mineralogy. Quartz latite is the fine-grained equivalent of...
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intrusive rock dominated by mafic phenocrysts in a feldspar groundmass Latite – Type of volcanic rock – A silica-undersaturated form of andesite Lherzolite –...
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level and is overlain by about 20m of porphyritic basalt, termed Bombo Latite member. The contact between the two units is well-exposed in the cliff section...
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The fine grained volcanic rock equivalent of quartz monzonite is quartz latite. The term adamellite was originally applied by A. Cathrein in 1890 to orthoclase-bearing...
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gabbro. Intermediate volcanic rocks include andesite, dacite, trachyte, and latite.[citation needed] Pyroclastic rocks are the product of explosive volcanism...
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classification. These are divided into sodium-rich benmoreite and potassium-rich latite. Trachyandesitic magma can produce explosive Plinian eruptions, such as...
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geologic formation known as the Table Mountain Latite. Within the region of Table Mountain, the Table Mountain Latite is mapped as a part of the Mehrten Formation...
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within Palmas volcanics. In Etendeka, individual eruptive units of quartz latite are grouped into high-Ti and low-Ti suites. The high-Ti suit is composed...
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ovens were in operation from 1876 through 1879. They were built of quartz latite welded tuff by itinerant Swiss Italian masons known as carbonari, who specialized...
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obovata. The soils it grows on are high in nutrients and include Bumbo Latite and Budgong Sandstone. As rainforests were cleared, isolated specimens were...
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Kathedrale, Petersberg 2022, p. 200f The materials used were trachyte and latite from Drachenfels, from Stenzelberg, Wolkenburg and Berkum; sandstone from...
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Mountains and Messum Igneous Complex, Namibia. Part II: Voluminous Quartz Latite Volcanism of the Awahab Magma System". Journal of Petrology. 39 (2): 227–253...
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unusually alkali-rich in some cases. Peralkaline phonolitic trachyte and latite have also been produced, and there is rare trachybasalt. Three geological...
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silica-undersaturated sodium-rich variety of trachyandesite (the other kind is latite) and belongs to the alkaline suite of igneous rocks. It was named after...
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red-brown matrix. The composition of rhomb porphyry places it in the trachyte–latite classification of the QAPF diagram. Rhomb porphyry is found in continental...
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is also capped by the eroded remnant of a basaltic (or, more properly, a latite) lava flow, in the central foothills of California. They are named for their...
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volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks of Oligocene age and predominantly quartz latite composition. The Cripple Creek volcanic complex is surrounded by Precambrian...
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Shoshonite. S3 (Trachyandesite—*Sodic and potassic variants are Benmoreite and Latite. Pc (Picrobasalt) U1 (Basanite or Tephrite)—Use normative mineralogy to...
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plagioclase is termed a monzodiorite. The volcanic equivalent of monzonite is latite. The plagioclase in monzonite is sodium-rich, ranging from oligoclase to...
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the ratio of potassium to sodium (so that potassic trachyandesites are latites and sodic trachyandesites are benmoreites). Some of the more mafic fields...
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Trachytic boulders of different and varied sizes created by volcanic activity of quartz-latite lavas over a million years ago...
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erosion process on the more recent rock, formed into columnar basalt, or latite. Before the cedar-getters (comprising ex-convicts, convicts and runaways...
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S. and J. R. Holloway (1984) Lower crustal nodules from the Camp Creek latite, Carefree, Arizona. Kimberlites II: The mantle and cryst-mantle relationships...
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oxidation found in fault and fracture zones in Laramide volcanics and quartz latite porphyry intrusives. Silver ore was also occurred in manganese oxides with...
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discovered, it was found as dense white masses in alternating dikes of quartz latite and quartz monzonite alongside other secondary minerals such as sphalerite...
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minette) might be classified as potassic trachybasalt, shoshonite, or latite using the total alkali-silica diagram (see TAS classification), or as absarokite...
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makes one volcanic massif. It is made of magmatic rocks, chiefly quartz latite and dacite (andesite), suitable for masonry and road building. The peak...
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by surface andesite flows at least 2,300 feet thick, and radial quartz latite or rhyolite dikes. The stock generated the porphyry copper deposits, gold-bearing...
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Icelandite Ignimbrite Ijolite Kimberlite Komatiite Lamproite Lamprophyre Latite Lherzolite Monzogranite Monzonite Nepheline syenite Nephelinite Norite Obsidian...
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