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rhyolite (noun) - Rhyolite is a type of volcanic rock that is silica-rich and typically light in color. It is formed from highly viscous magma and is known for its fine-grained texture
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- An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
- A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
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A few thin rhyolite sequences are also observed.
Columnar jointing is not limited to rhyolite formations.
Crystalline rhyolite and pumice were also produced.
It can also be found in lithophysal cavities in rhyolite.
It consists of rhyolite tuff and sedimentary layers.
His only protection was a dust he called rhyolite.
Rhyolite is a mixture of private and federal land.
Most natural glasses are chemically equivalent to rhyolite.
Rhyolite is a volcanic rock with high silica content.
Natural glasses may be chemically equivalent to rhyolite.
Rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it rose.
Dacite and rhyolite are also found.
Rhyolite occurs throughout the suburb.
It consists of porphyry rhyolite and andesite.
Some rhyolite is highly vesicular pumice.
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These rocks are usually found within obsidian or rhyolite.
Purple pink rhyolite is found in the north east.
The rest of this canyon is tertiary rhyolite volcanics.
A single rhyolite coulee is also part of the field.
Connection between plant distribution and alkali rhyolite.
Patches of rhyolite outcrop lower down the slope.
Panorama over the glaciers and hills of rhyolite.
Granite and rhyolite are the most common silicic rocks.
Its caldera is surrounded by a series of dacite and rhyolite domes.
Nearer the summit are intrusions rhyolite and sills of basaltic andesite.
Sothepinetreesandthe insects both indicate that there is a lot of rhyolite in.
The peak is a rhyolite plug.
The composition of the lavas varies from tholeiitic basalt to rhyolite.
Following the rhyolite eruption there has been a return to basaltic lava eruptions.
Its extrusive equivalent is rhyolite.
The eruption of a rhyolite volcano is too quick and violent to build up a cone.
Yellow matrix could be rhyolite.
Hike in the colourful rhyolite mountains formed by centuries of volcanic activities in the area.
Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite.
Swarms of mosquitoes show that explosive rhyolite lava underlies parts of the park.
The magnetite is mixed with sand made from andesite and rhyolite.
One rhyolite lava flow is found at Azufre.
Chalcedony in rhyolite.
But Rhyolite never really died per se.
The apparent extent of partial melting of metabasalt increases from rhyolite to andesite.
The coarse aggregates were rhyolite tuffs from the Rivolet quarry.
The town gets its name from a magmatic rock called rhyolite.
Rhyolite covers most of Gilmore except in the east where rhyodacite is found.
They are represented by flow breccia characterized by a progressive transition from a fragmented to a massive rhyolite.
The central volcano Prestahnúkur consists of rhyolite and has a small magma chamber.
Fire Opal is sometimes found filling cavities in rhyolite.
In the north east is cream rhyolite from the highest layer of the Ainslie Volcanics.
The eruption ended with the extrusion of a lava dome of rhyolite that plugged the vent.
Turn left at the sign for Rhyolite shortly after you cross the Nevada border.
You can get it by fusing and cooling down acid lava from the rhyolite type.
