Dacite, the Glossary
Dacite is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides.[1]
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103 relations: Aleutian Islands, Almería, Amphibole, Andes, Andesine, Andesite, Antilles, Aphanite, Archean, Argyll, Augite, Austria, Basalt, Biotite, Bolzano, British Geological Survey, Bulgaria, Calc-alkaline magma series, Caldera, Carpathian Mountains, Cascade Range, Chile, Continental margin, Dacia, Danube, Dike (geology), Ecuador, Enstatite, Feldspar, Felsic, Fish Canyon Tuff, Franz Ritter von Hauer, Guatemala, Hornblende, Hungary, Iceland, International Union of Geological Sciences, Iran, Island arc, Japan, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Kīlauea, La Garita Caldera, Labradorite, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lava, List of alkali metal oxides, Lithos (journal), Magma, Mars, ... Expand index (53 more) »
- Aphanitic rocks
- Felsic rocks
- Intermediate rocks
- Porphyritic rocks
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.
See Dacite and Aleutian Islands
Almería
Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia.
Amphibole
Amphibole is a group of inosilicate minerals, forming prism or needlelike crystals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures.
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
See Dacite and Andes
Andesine
Andesine is a silicate mineral, a member of the plagioclase feldspar solid solution series.
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. Dacite and Andesite are aphanitic rocks, intermediate rocks, Porphyritic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Antilles
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
Aphanite
Aphanites (adj. aphanitic) are igneous rocks that are so fine-grained that their component mineral crystals are not visible to the naked eye (in contrast to phanerites, in which the crystals are visible to the unaided eye). Dacite and aphanite are aphanitic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Archean
The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.
Argyll
Argyll (archaically Argyle; Earra-Ghàidheal), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
Augite
Augite, also known as Augurite, is a common rock-forming pyroxene mineral with formula.
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. Dacite and Basalt are aphanitic rocks, Porphyritic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Biotite
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
Bolzano
Bolzano (or; Bozen; Balsan or Bulsan) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol, in Northern Italy.
British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
See Dacite and British Geological Survey
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Calc-alkaline magma series
The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series.
See Dacite and Calc-alkaline magma series
Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
See Dacite and Carpathian Mountains
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
See Dacite and Chile
Continental margin
A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.
See Dacite and Continental margin
Dacia
Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west.
See Dacite and Dacia
Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
Dike (geology)
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Enstatite
Enstatite is a mineral; the magnesium endmember of the pyroxene silicate mineral series enstatite (MgSiO3) – ferrosilite (FeSiO3).
Feldspar
Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.
Felsic
In geology, felsic is a modifier describing igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.
Fish Canyon Tuff
The Fish Canyon Tuff is the large volcanic ash flow or ignimbrite deposit resulting from one of the largest known explosive eruptions on Earth, estimated at.
See Dacite and Fish Canyon Tuff
Franz Ritter von Hauer
Franz Ritter von Hauer, or Franz von Hauer (30 January 1822 – 20 March 1899) was an Austrian geologist.
See Dacite and Franz Ritter von Hauer
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.
Hornblende
Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals.
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
International Union of Geological Sciences
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology.
See Dacite and International Union of Geological Sciences
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
See Dacite and Iran
Island arc
Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
See Dacite and Japan
Juan de Fuca Ridge
The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a mid-ocean spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, named after Juan de Fuca.
See Dacite and Juan de Fuca Ridge
Kīlauea
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands.
La Garita Caldera
La Garita Caldera is a large caldera and extinct supervolcano in the San Juan volcanic field in the San Juan Mountains around the town of Creede in southwestern Colorado, United States.
See Dacite and La Garita Caldera
Labradorite
Labradorite ((Ca, Na)(Al, Si)4O8) is a calcium-enriched feldspar mineral first identified in Labrador, Canada, which can display an iridescent effect (schiller).
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park is an American national park in northeastern California.
See Dacite and Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lava
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.
See Dacite and Lava
The alkali metals react with oxygen to form several different compounds: suboxides, oxides, peroxides, sesquioxides, superoxides, and ozonides.
See Dacite and List of alkali metal oxides
Lithos (journal)
Lithos is a peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing original research papers on the petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
See Dacite and Lithos (journal)
Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
See Dacite and Magma
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
See Dacite and Mars
Massif de l'Esterel
The Massif de l'Esterel (Occitan Provençal: Esterèu; English: Esterel Massif) is a Mediterranean coastal mountain range in the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera.
See Dacite and Massif de l'Esterel
Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.
See Dacite and Mica
Microcrystalline
A microcrystalline material is a crystallized substance or rock that contains small crystals visible only through microscopic examination.
See Dacite and Microcrystalline
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.
Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Mount Batur
Mount Batur (Gunung Batur) is an active volcano located at the center of two concentric calderas northwest of Mount Agung on the island of Bali, Indonesia.
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
See Dacite and Mount St. Helens
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
See Dacite and NASA
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Nisyros
Nisyros also spelled Nisiros (Nísyros) is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea.
Oligoclase
Oligoclase is a rock-forming mineral belonging to the plagioclase feldspars.
Partial melting
Partial melting is the phenomenon that occurs when a rock is subjected to temperatures high enough to cause certain minerals to melt, but not all of them.
See Dacite and Partial melting
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
See Dacite and Peru
Phenocryst
Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
Poieni, Cluj
Poieni (Kissebes; Klein Weichselburg) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania.
Porphyritic
Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology to describe igneous rocks with a distinct difference in the size of mineral crystals, with the larger crystals known as phenocrysts. Dacite and Porphyritic are Porphyritic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Potassium oxide
Potassium oxide (2O) is an ionic compound of potassium and oxygen.
See Dacite and Potassium oxide
Potosí
Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia.
Pyroclastic flow
A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.
See Dacite and Pyroclastic flow
Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
QAPF diagram
A QAPF diagram is a doubled-triangle plot diagram used to classify intrusive igneous rocks based on their mineralogy.
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
Rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. Dacite and Rhyodacite are aphanitic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Rhyolite
Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. Dacite and Rhyolite are aphanitic rocks, felsic rocks, Porphyritic rocks and volcanic rocks.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Sanidine
Sanidine is the high temperature form of potassium feldspar with a general formula K(AlSi3O8).
Santorini
Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.
Sardinia
Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Serpentine subgroup
Serpentine subgroup (part of the kaolinite-serpentine group in the category of phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite.
See Dacite and Serpentine subgroup
Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
See Dacite and Silicon dioxide
Sill (geology)
In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Sodium oxide
Sodium oxide is a chemical compound with the formula.
South Sandwich Islands
The South Sandwich Islands (Islas Sandwich del Sur) are a chain of uninhabited volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
See Dacite and South Sandwich Islands
Sunda Arc
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that produced the volcanoes that form the topographic spine of the islands of Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara, Java, the Sunda Strait, and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Syrtis Major Planum
Syrtis Major Planum (formerly Syrtis Major Planitia) is a massive shield volcano in the eastern hemisphere of Mars.
See Dacite and Syrtis Major Planum
Talc
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula.
See Dacite and Talc
TAS classification
TAS stands for Total Alkali Silica.
See Dacite and TAS classification
Taupō Volcano
Lake Taupō, in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, fills the caldera of the Taupō Volcano, a large rhyolitic supervolcano.
Tholeiitic magma series
The tholeiitic magma series is one of two main magma series in subalkaline igneous rocks, the other being the calc-alkaline series.
See Dacite and Tholeiitic magma series
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.
See Dacite and Tonga
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Type locality (geology)
Type locality, also called type area, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified.
See Dacite and Type locality (geology)
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
See Dacite and United States Geological Survey
Upper mantle
The upper mantle of Earth is a very thick layer of rock inside the planet, which begins just beneath the crust (at about under the oceans and about under the continents) and ends at the top of the lower mantle at.
Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano. Dacite and volcanic rock are volcanic rocks.
Weiselberg
The Weiselberg is a hill in the North Palatine Uplands near Oberkirchen in the Saarland county of St. Wendel.
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
See also
Aphanitic rocks
- Alkali basalt
- Andesite
- Aphanite
- Basalt
- Basanite
- Dacite
- Diabase
- Hawaiite
- Icelandite
- Mugearite
- Phenotype (igneous petrology)
- Picrite basalt
- Rhyodacite
- Rhyolite
Felsic rocks
- Adakite
- Aplite
- Appinite
- Archean felsic volcanic rocks
- Dacite
- Granite
- Granodiorite
- Perlite
- Rhyolite
- Tonalite
- Trachyte
Intermediate rocks
- Adakite
- Andesite
- Appinite
- Basaltic andesite
- Benmoreite
- Boninite
- Dacite
- Diorite
- Granodiorite
- Icelandite
- Intermediate composition
- Phonolite
- Tephriphonolite
- Trachyandesite
- Trachybasalt
Porphyritic rocks
- Andesite
- Ankaramite
- Basalt
- Basanite
- Blairmorite
- Dacite
- Granophyre
- Lamprophyre
- Mons Porphyrites
- Porphyritic
- Porphyry (geology)
- Quartz-porphyry
- Rhyolite
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacite
Also known as Dacite lava, Dacite rock, Dacitic, Weiselbergite.
, Massif de l'Esterel, Mica, Microcrystalline, Moldova, Montana, Morocco, Mount Batur, Mount St. Helens, NASA, New Zealand, Nisyros, Oligoclase, Partial melting, Peru, Phenocryst, Philippines, Plagioclase, Poieni, Cluj, Porphyritic, Potassium oxide, Potosí, Pyroclastic flow, Pyroxene, QAPF diagram, Quartz, Rhyodacite, Rhyolite, Roman Empire, Romania, Sanidine, Santorini, Sardinia, Serpentine subgroup, Silicon dioxide, Sill (geology), Slovakia, Sodium oxide, South Sandwich Islands, Sunda Arc, Syrtis Major Planum, Talc, TAS classification, Taupō Volcano, Tholeiitic magma series, Tonga, Turkey, Type locality (geology), United States, United States Geological Survey, Upper mantle, Volcanic rock, Weiselberg, Zambia.