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Eichelberger, J. C. Origin of andesite and dacite: evidence of mixing at Glass Mountain in California and at other circum-Pacific volcanoes.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2017
I went to school at the foot of a mountain made of dacite, the same kind of magma that blew Mount St. Helens apart.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2012
Mount Elden dominates the picture, a large exogenous dacite dome.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2012
Released from confining pressure, gasses within the thick dacite magma came out of solution and blew through upper slump block as it fell.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2012
"I wonder if they are visible from the dacite elevation on which SHE lives."
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
Their felspar ranges from oligoclase to andesite and labradorite, and is often very zonal; sanidine occurs also in some dacites, and when abundant gives rise to rocks which form transitions to the rhyolites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Interbedded volcanic rocks, andesites, dacites, diabases, with agglomerates and tuffs constitute an important feature, and attain a thickness of 6000 ft. in the Pentland and Ochil hills.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Other dacites, especially augite- and enstatite-dacites, are darker coloured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
The whole of this consists of tuffs and lavas, andesites prevailing in the west and rhyolites and dacites in the east.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
The rocks are liparites, dacites, hornblende and pyroxene andesites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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