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- feldspathoid-bearing latite, and olivine is absent in a quartz-bearing latite. When quartz content is greater than five percent the rock is classified as quartz latite. Biotite...
- 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...
- enriched in alkali metal oxides. Quartz latite is intermediate between latite and rhyolite in its mineralogy. Quartz latite is the fine-grained equivalent of...
- intrusive rock dominated by mafic phenocrysts in a feldspar groundm**** Latite – Type of volcanic rock – A silica-undersaturated form of andesite Lherzolite –...
- hardened into a rock (latite) that is relatively resistant to erosion. The top of Table Mountain is composed of Table Mountain Latite, which formed from...
- gabbro. Intermediate volcanic rocks include andesite, dacite, trachyte, and latite.[citation needed] Pyroclastic rocks are the product of explosive volcanism...
- 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...
- classification. These are divided into sodium-rich benmoreite and pot****ium-rich latite. Trachyandesitic magma can produce explosive Plinian eruptions, such as...
- ovens were in operation from 1876 through 1879. They were built of quartz latite welded tuff by itinerant Swiss Italian masons who specialized in the ovens...
- 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...