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da·cite

 (dā′sīt′)
n.
A fine-grained light gray volcanic rock consisting primarily of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and potassium feldspar, and also containing biotite, hornblende, or pyroxene.

[After Dacia.]
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dacite

(ˈdeɪsaɪt)
n
an igneous, volcanic rock characteristically light in colour with relatively high silica content
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Noun1.dacite - a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals
oligoclase, plagioclase - any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks
volcanic rock - extrusive igneous rock solidified near or on the surface of the Earth
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Main lithologies are a porphyritic dacite surrounded by a coarse-grained granodiorite.
Throughout the complex there are sills of gabbro, ultrabasic rocks and dacite porphyrite.
Three of the analysed samples from the latter formation contained > 63% Si[O.sub.2] (Appendix B), although only one of these plots in the rhyolite- dacite field based on immobile trace element ratios (Fig.lOa).
The lithology around CP is composed of gneiss (quartz-feldspars), shale (quartz-mica), marble, amphibolite, and quartzite from Permic to Jurassic [24] and metamorphic, granitic, and granodiorite rocks which are intruded by batholitic rocks [16], together with dacite and andesite from Miocene and rhyodacite from Quaternary [25].
--Neogene (Pliocene formations); covered the north watershed of basin, and appear as spot in middle basin, formed about 10.70 % of the total area, consist of gravel, sand, silt, pumice, and volcanic ash, with Augitehypersthene dacite welded tuff.
(1981) Geophysical characteristics of dacite volcanism--the 1977-1978 eruption of Usu volcano.