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What is a dacite?

What is a dacite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) An igneous, volcanic rock with a high iron content.
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They are marked by eruptions of cooler, stickier lavas such as andesite, dacite and rhyolite.
These are overlain by flows of rhyolite, dacite, and andesite totalling about 900 m in thickness.
The canyon is carved out of dacite, and there are some large trees with yellow and green leaves.
It comprises a series of ridges and vertical towers of dacite that cut through the centres of the older Mount Fee units.
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
These are called tension gashes and formed as the dacite split open allowing the quartz fluid to fill in the cracks.

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