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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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South of Tricouni Peak are andesite and dacite lava flows that form two non-overlapping sequences.
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.
The canyon is carved out of dacite, and there are some large trees with yellow and green leaves.
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
Unchallengeable examples of what are assumed to have been beta quartz appear to be limited to occurrences in silicic volcanic rocks, such as rhyolite, liparite, and dacite.
These are overlain by flows of rhyolite, dacite, and andesite totalling about 900 m in thickness.

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