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What is a trachyte?

What is a trachyte? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.
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They are chiefly leucite and nepheline rocks, such as leucitite, leucitophyre and nephelinite, but basalt and trachyte also occur.
Some of these are composed of trachyte, others of compact blue basalt with olivine.
Pumice and trachyte are the most common rocks around this mountain, and these are augitic or porphyroid.
South of the city of Isparta pyroclastic rocks are interbedded with rhyolite, trachyte, phonolite and lamproite flows.
Upon this rests a pumiceous breccia and conglomerate, with angular masses of trachyte, and some quartz pebbles.
To the north-east, on the boundary of the Langholm and Jedburgh sheets, the upper part of a small stream runs along the line of the shatter belt and a trachyte dyke.

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