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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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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.

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