trachytic

British  

/ trəˈkɪtɪk /

adjective

1. (of the texture of certain igneous rocks) characterized by a parallel arrangement of crystals, which mark the flow of the lava when still molten

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Example Sentences

It retracted deep into the earth after the eruption, leaving a chimney in the older, harder trachytic rock.

From Washington Post

Rivers.—The greater part of Hungary is well provided with both rivers and springs, but some trachytic and limestone mountainous districts show a marked deficiency in this respect.

From Project Gutenberg

What is the description of the rock formation, trachytic, granitic, or gneiss, or are slate or sandstone the characteristic formations?

From Project Gutenberg

This warm spring, with a temperature of 113� Fahr., which even at its source forms a tolerable-sized brook, issues with much spluttering from a trachytic rock close by the way-side, and rushes, brawling and foaming, down a narrow defile, overgrown with splendid tree-ferns, and which is crossed by means of a slight rustic bridge.

From Project Gutenberg

The whole history of the activity of this volcano may be compared to the explosions of a vapour cauldron in the interior of the earth, which has been heated by the masses of old trachytic lava currents in an incandescent state, but not yet thoroughly cooled, whose eruptions formed the principal means of erecting the volcanic cone.

From Project Gutenberg