The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs. |
The lava dome is made of dacite, a fine-grained volcanic rock that contains a sprinkling of larger, visible crystals, like chopped fruit in a cake. |
These are called tension gashes and formed as the dacite split open allowing the quartz fluid to fill in the cracks. |
It comprises a series of ridges and vertical towers of dacite that cut through the centres of the older Mount Fee units. |
Look around the trail signs and benches and identify the pale tan coloured dacite. |
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite. |