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Dacite
Contents
1 Composition
2 Texture
4 See Also
5 References
Composition
Dacite consists mostly of plagioclase feldspar with biotite, hornblende, and pyroxene (augite
and/or enstatite). It has quartz as rounded, corroded phenocrysts, or as an element of the groundmass.[1]
The plagioclase ranges from oligoclase to andesine and labradorite. Sanidine occurs, although in
small proportions, in some dacites, and when abundant gives rise to rocks that form transitions to
the rhyolites.
The groundmass of these rocks is composed of plagioclase and quartz.
Texture
See Also
References
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silicic magmas. Bulletin of Volcanology 71, 185-199.
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Drummond, M. S. and Defant, M. J., 1990, A model for trondhjemite-tonalitedacite genesis and crustal growth via slab melting. Journal Geophysical Research 95,
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Fyfe, W., McBirney, A. (1975) Subduction and the structure of andesitic volcanic
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Defant, M., Richerson, P., De Boer, J., Stewart R., Maury, R., Bellon, H.,
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