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What does rhyolite mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) An igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
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South of the city of Isparta pyroclastic rocks are interbedded with rhyolite, trachyte, phonolite and lamproite flows.
The conglomerate was deposited in tributary stream channels, and the pebbles consist almost entirely of quartz-feldspar phenocrystic rhyolite.
The age of the K-bentonite event is statistically indistinguishable from the age of the Chaschuil rhyolite.
These structures may be evidence of early nucleation and devitrification that preceded that in the surrounding host rhyolite.
A well-known locality for agate or chalcedony nodules in rhyolite is near the Twin Mountains, northwest of Del Norte in Saguache County.
The first few of these volcanic necks are identified as rhyolite, a light colored rock.

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