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Definition of Dacites
1. dacite [n] - See also: dacite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dacites
Literary usage of Dacites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Research in China by Carnegie Institution of Washington, Bailey Willis, Eliot Blackwelder, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Stuart Weller, George Herbert Girty (1907)
"dacites. Hornblende-dacite porphyry, No. 44.—This porphyry is known only as an
intrusive in the Sinian limestone north of Sin-t'ai-hien. ..."
2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Inclusions of glass with one or more gas bubbles are common in the hyaline dacites.
Abundance of gas bubbles and of glass inclusions indicates rapid ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"dacites are quartz-hornblende andesites. They were associated with quartz-trachytes
... dacites differ from andesite in the character of the ground mass, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1901)
"that the normal dacites contain an excess of alkaline earths over alkalies, ...
A comparison of the mean molecular composition of the dacites quoted by ..."
5. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"Other dacites are recorded from Leuchars and Wormit Bay in the same district3.
Little is known of true dacites among the Lower Palaeozoic lavas of this ..."
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