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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trachytic

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

It was carefully studied with a 6 1/4 inch Cooke-achromatic by the late Professor Phillips, the geologist, who compared it to the dolomitic or trachytic mountains of the earth.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

It is bordered by a rim of trachytic rock, forming a black coronet above the greyish volcanic dust and sand which covers its sides to a great depth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

Hunting however was not our object, but the succession of chasms, 100 feet deep, worn through the soft pumice and trachytic tufas by the action of the Tji-Lanang and its little tributary streams.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Chimborazo is very likely not a solid mountain: trachytic volcanoes are supposed to be full of cavities.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

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