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 Translation for 'dacite' from English to Slovak
NOUN   a dacite | dacites
geol.
dacit {m}
dacite
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Translation for 'dacite' from English to Slovak

dacite
dacit {m}geol.
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  • The formation includes a dacite lava flow, pyroclastic flows, lahars and fallout pumice.
  • This pluton is composed of dacite, a type of volcanic rock that is formed by lava.
  • The batholith is overlain by dacite from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (roughly 66 million to 1.8 million years ago) and andesite from the late Cretaceous.
  • The Fish Canyon Tuff, made of dacite, is uniform in its petrological composition and forms a single cooling unit despite the huge volume.
  • Along the hill tops the rock is from the Hawkins Volcanics, with mostly dacite in the south, and andesite in the north.

  • The world's largest known dacite flow is the Chao dacite dome complex, a huge coulée flow-dome between two volcanoes in northern Chile.
  • The Dacite of Pajarito Mountain is divided into two series of lavas.
  • The rock of Tumtum Mountain is a very fine-grained light buff to gray dacite, with silica content of 68%, fairly typical and similar to that found in the lava domes of Mount St.
  • The formation contains basalt and andesite, as well as volcanic breccia with component dacite pebbles and cobbles and tuff shale cemented together with calcite.
  • Ignimbrite and dacite breccia cut by dikes of andesite and dacite give the peak many colors.

  • Mount Fee dacite contains up to 70% brown volcanic glass and up to 15% vesicular textures.
  • Since then, smaller dacite domes formed around Lassen.
  • Besides basalt, dacite and granite have been found there.
  • Domes typically solidify to form the rich in silica extrusive rock obsidian and sometimes dacite domes form the extrusive rock dacite, like in the case of Mount St.
  • Dacite usually forms as an intrusive rock such as a dike or sill.

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