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What does rhyolitic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to, or composed of rhyolite
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The workings appear to loosely follow the upper contact of a grey, altered rhyolitic tuff with an overlying porphyritic rhyolite unit.
Pumiceous peperite is associated with a rhyolitic sill that intruded wet, unconsolidated, submarine stratified pumice breccia in the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics, Australia.
It was characterized by rhyolitic volcanism which appears to have been restricted to the Horn Graben area.
Geochemical variation is common in deposits of many rhyolitic eruptions, especially those from large, caldera-forming events in continental settings.
Geochemical analyses of these clasts show that the eruption tapped two chemically distinct rhyolitic magmas.
The injection of a mafic magma into a more silicic magma chamber is an important trigger mechanism in moderate-sized andesitic, dacitic and rhyolitic eruptions.

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